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Great news for Australia. Brilliant for the UK. The Brits have chucked out EU climate bunnies. No one can deny the British want out. All the stupid parliamentary games, the attention-seeking mass rallies, and the fake concern about “threats to democracy” got knocked on the head. Finally the country will be able to follow the wishes of voters instead of the wishes of a few career pollies. In great
This is how the paradigm changes. The old activism is quietly dropped down the memory hole… Buried in a save-the-koala story on ABC News tonight is an ABC journalist saying for the first time that it is “current fire management practices” that are the problem. Rani Hayman didn’t say fuel load, but she might as well have. The reference to “indigenous fire practices” makes it obvious that the ABC me
Watch Spock in the 1970s describing how climate scientists were predicting a mile high wall of ice that could cover Canada down to Boston “in your lifetime”, and it may already have started. Commenter Bulldust found Gary Orsum’s droll commentary on that documentary. Great stuff. Best part begins from 5:45 mins on: In 1977 the worst winter in a century struck the United States… one desperate night

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Photos just in from Bill Johnston in NSW show why Sydney is shrouded in smoke and why so much is still at risk this summer. The sign marks the fire trail — which is lucky, otherwise no one would know it was there. Spot the sign in the photo below. Spot the fire-trail. How many fires would this stop? About as many as a solar panel. Fire trail or fire trap? | Photo Bill Johnston This is NSW fire pr
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Some teenagers risk ten years in a Chinese jail. While another risks school detention as the chosen puppet of Big Government and Big Money. Guess which one Time Magazine thinks is more worthy? Time leaves out the Hong Kong Protesters fighting for their lives and freedoms to push a teen being used as a marketing gimmick. How dare you? https://t.co/dnV9mESM6G — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) De

Dec 11

Friday 13th: Newcastle sceptics for lunch and Sunshine Coast sceptics are getting together for afternoon drinks. Email me: joanne AT joannenova.com.au and I’ll forward your email to the skeptic in charge. Even if you can’t get there this time, we’ll let you know for the next. I hear the Sunshine Coast Sceptics are in for a real treat… (send me those photos please!) Jim, in Newcastle your email bo
Thoughts are with you Freemen of the United Kingdom. One day away from a very important election. Boris is just brilliant in this Ad. He carries off the parody of the carol singers in “Love Actually” without looking smug or self conscious. … The Australian-ABC Groupthink Predictor points at a conservative win — since ABC NEWS has barely mentioned the UK election during the whole campaign, obvious

Dec 10

“Exxon knew” is now legally proven to be the vacuous empty dogwhistle it always was — a cheap stunt to whip up jealously and anger in gullible minds. Exxon wins first-of-its-kind climate change case against New York December 10, 2019, Josh Seigel, Washington Examiner ExxonMobil won a first-of-its-kind climate change fraud trial on Tuesday as a judge rejected the state of New York’s claim that the
The Deep State gets around congress and voters but we all know it isn’t supposed to be that way … The voters may not like the decisions, but they can’t vote out the bureaucrats. Think of the EPA, the FDA, and of course, the central bankers. Think of the Clean Air Act! Some of these agencies effectively make the guidelines that we-the-people have to live by, then they enforce them, and adjudicate t

Dec 07

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Snow in December: Has Australia installed too many solar panels? Climate Change brings summer snow to Australia Coldest maximum summer temperature on record at Thredbo Kate Doyle, ABC News On Monday, the second day of summer, the temperature only reached -1 degrees Celsius at the Thredbo weather station, the coldest maximum temperature recorded anywhere in Australia during summer. But really cold

Dec 05

… You can’t make this stuff up. The Government advertising bureau — the ABC — is telling Queenslanders that it’s good for them if the government switches off their air conditioning. As we pay more than ever for electricity, we also lose control of even our household appliances. If we get something back for the overpriced service, the propaganda unit calls this a payment, and a benefit. If you hav
This could’ve been us, Australia, if Bill Shorten had won two more seats. One week ago in California: Tesla drivers are stranded for hours in a half-a-mile-long line Shanon Stellini was travelling through Kettleman City on November 30 when she stumbled across a backlog of around 50 of the electric cars waiting to recharge in a half-mile line outside of at a station near Interstate 5. — Luke Kento
Junketees are on the move Last week tens of thousands of officials, observers, and hanger-on-erers began their annual migration. To make the journey some 26,700 climate junketees used a form of petroleum and one caught a boat. Currently they are immersed in the seasonal two-week harvest before they migrate back. Most delegates are collecting dollars, while others provide cash and collect Global Fr

Dec 04

With Alarmism off the dial, it’s nice to see some pushback coming from the near end of the science-scare. If journalists had asked questions like this back in 1988, it would have been all over by 1989. Why Climate Alarmism Hurts Us All Michael Shellenberger, Forbes, does some research on the wilder climate claims. What a novel experiment! He gets answers (at least for now) by taking the line, as

Dec 03

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Russia makes about $300 billion in gas and oil exports each year. For a tiny tenth of a billion dollars it fed western activists and successfully stopped fracking development in the UK (and some parts of Australia apparently). It’s what you call a stupendous investment. Matt Ridley lays out just how game changing the discovery of shale fracking could have been for the UK, and how easily the polit
Wired reports that Climate Change is worse for women Who knew? Not only are all past droughts and floods wiped from history apparently climate change makes men invisible too: The struggles are coming fast, and they’re coming hard. For farmers, drought or even just less reliable rainfall means crop failure and less water for cattle. Landslides from stronger monsoons wipe away farmland. Living along

Dec 01

This is striking new finding by ABC journalist Ann Arnold that for some reason has not yet been published in a science journal. Some mystery remains, however as to which dataset could rule out any and all fires in the last 30,000,000 years, or indeed which dataset could prove that those forests and trees have existed in the same place continuously. We keenly await more details on the high resolut
Western Australia is a giant experiment: Even the Energy Experts are saying solar is jeopardizing the grid — it’s “dumb” Watch this space — blackout coming, 3 years and counting… The Western Australian grid is a separate island from the rest of the nation. It’s roughly a 2.5 GW system for 2.5 million people. WA is getting into trouble faster than nearly anywhere else. Solar PV is now up to …. some
In comments Peter Fitzroy claimed Clive James was no skeptic: There is lots about scepticism, but no thing to say the Clive himself was sceptical about Climate Change. It should be remembered that he was primarily a wordsmith, and would write about anything for money. I did, he is sceptical, but he does not link that to a personal position. But you will, no doubt. You really need the context, and

Nov 30

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Nov 29

Wivenhoe Dam. Photo Geoff Mackley on youtube. ABC News: Queensland flood victims win class action against state, Seqwater and Sunwater over dam negligence In January 2011, a record La Nina was in play known to cause higher rainfall in Australia, then flooding rains were forecast, yet the main dam holding water above Brisbane wasn’t releasing water and getting ready to be the flood buffer it was s
Every day, grownups pay the bills, feed the world, and operate millions of heavy machines that move at deadly speeds. These same adults mostly don’t buy carbon credits, don’t vote Green, and don’t march in XR protests. But evidently all those engineer-doctor-dentist-farmer humans are wrong: It’s time to listen to the kids, Professor Steffen said. “The bottom line is, we’re saying the schoolchildr

Nov 28

Clive James was all these things, Incredibly funny hysterically funny Brilliant, we all know So skilled, and like a juggler with words Disciplined, Incredibly hard working and really loyal. –quote, Jennifer Byrne, ABC, 7:30 Report 22:10 But he was also very much, unmistakably, an outspoken skeptic. Something the ABC couldn’t bring itself to say. What was Clive James’s position on the most expensi

Nov 27

One survey — so much spin The Fin Review headline is entirely misleading. “Climate rises as the No. 1 voter concern“. In fact, the same survey shows that two thirds of Australians didn’t even mention “climate change” as one of their top three concerns. The exact same survey shows that when prompted with different topics (rather than just asked what was on the top of their mind) the main concern of
To skeptics in Perth, Australia: Party time, Christmas drinks and dinner is on from 6pm Friday 6th December. We are lucky enough to have spectacular views, a central location, free parking, and just $20/head for steak and salad. Beer and wine for sale. Families welcome. No speeches. If you’d like to come, I’d love to see you there Friday week from 6pm — email me to find out where this quiet, bril

Nov 26

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There’s another round of push-poll fake surveys telling us how much the public want action on climate change. Part of the aim is to scare politicians and trick them into thinking that voters won’t vote for skeptics and will be happy to pay more for electricity, food, cars, and everything. But the awful truth is that the voters “vote” with their own wallets every time they fly, and 98% of them don

Nov 25

This week 75 years ago. Dust storms, bush fires and unbelievable heat across New South Wales. 118 fahrenheit is 47 degrees C, and there were 100+ temperatures in many places. The sun appearred as a “red sky”. A dust storm created a “terror” in Mildura (just like last week in 2019). In Parkes, it was the worst dry spell on record. People were going without milk because the cows have died. Thanks t

Nov 24

In a rare move for consumers, US citizens will not be forced to buy LED soul-and-body-clock destroying globes next year as was planned. Instead they can frivolously continue to buy incandescent globes if they so choose. Despite the Democrats best efforts to stop droughts and bushfires with indoor lighting, no US citizen will be denied the chance to save their own money and enjoy a more natural sp
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Nov 22

Look who wanted an excuse to justify what he never felt motivated to do anyhow: When I got engaged, my fiancĂ©e, Virginia, and I started planning for the future. It wasn’t just my dog Wiley and me against the world anymore. All of a sudden, I started thinking ten to 20 or more years ahead. People who want kids don’t mention US presidents, forest management, or generic family pets in their decision
The mob tried to shut down these dangerous speakers… but they didn’t win.. though they had to find another venue with only days to go. The program for the 13th Annual Conference Friday James Taylor then Benny Pieser, the Dr Helmut Alt, After lunch, Peter Ridd, Dr. Michael Schnell, Dr Nicola Scaffetta, Dr Susan Crockford, Myron Ebell. Saturday: Prof. em. Dr. Christian SchlĂ¼chter, Prof. Dr. Nicola

Nov 21

Quick, who has a yacht to offer these poor celebrities? Following Greta’s marketing example, Coldplay are getting headlines by refusing to fly to Australia. Climate-compassion-marketing is a good way to promote their next tour, especially among the young delusionals: Coldplay won’t tour its new album until the band’s concerts can be environmentally ‘beneficial’ Paul Donoughue, ABC “News” Singer Ch
OK. Bit late. Sorry about that. Rating: 9.1/10 (11 votes cast) Rating: 9.1/ 10 (11 votes cast)
Stone Island is the reef that put Peter Ridd’s career on the road to the high court. Last week Jennifer Marohasy released a mini documentary showing corals around Stone Island that weren’t supposed to be there. It was a bad look for Dr Tara Clark, the expert who had said the corals were gone. This week Graham Readfearn hit back with “Scientists say rightwing think tank misrepresented her Great Ba

Nov 20

Watch this. There’s no electricity involved, and also no smart government operatives. The US and Canadian military couldn’t see much potential. The inventors tried to keep it secret and give the military a heads-up but they’re only getting replies now that it is on youtube. Another case of incompetence rising to the top in Western bureaucracy. If the West survives it will be despite our governmen

Nov 19

The West is weak to the point of collapse. A major hotel chain has canceled a 200 person conference mere days beforehand because 20 activists yelled at them. Where are the police? These people are a public nuisance. EIKE has hosted regular scientific conferences for 12 years without incident, they are regular clients, the conference is worth thousands, but a small group of shouty people overrules
What a bombshell. We hear non-stop about the new extreme heat, yet the original data at 60 of the oldest sites across Australia shows there are no more Very-Hot-Days now than there were early last century. That’s no trend in 40 degree days for 100 years — none at least, until the Bureau of Meteorology adjusts the data… After we were shocked at the latest ACORN changes to our Very Hot Days data, I

Nov 18

It’s a nervous wait til summer. The Australian grid appears to be in slightly better shape than a couple of months ago, but it’s still so shaky manufacturers admit they are developing contingency plans to move operations interstate if a blackout hits, or they get attacked by a bout of high prices: Something that doesn’t happen in competent countries with reliable electricity: Victorian manufactur

Nov 16

In NSW fires continue to burn, and with more hot weather is forecast. Some farmers are burning off for themselves, not waiting to be saved by a bucket of rain from a plane. There’s a total fire ban in NSW, so this is very much illegal, highly risky, and 5 months (or 5 years) too late. Desperate and dangerous. A dire situation. As a signpost on the Road to Madness, its time the whole nation heard
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Nov 14

Jennifer Marohasy dives on Beige Reef near Stone Island with Walter Stark, and Emmy Award winning cinematographer Clint Hempsall. The aim was just to record what was there… don’t believe your lying eyes. Fortunately, this science is not peer reviewed. Jennifer’s blog and the IPA. Rating: 9.7/10 (90 votes cast) Rating: 9.7/ 10 (90 votes cast)

Nov 13

The Bureau of Meteorology did what to February? Wow, just wow. Look what the Bureau of Meteorology has covertly done to February? Something like one third of a degree has been added to the average Australian summer maximum anomalies over the past few years according to the “expert” data from the worlds-best-practise equipment. In the BOM Whopper Part 1 we revealed that in the BOM’s latest round of
Roger Pielke Jnr in Forbes: Everything You Hear About Billion-Dollar Disasters Is Wrong First NOAA did the billion dollar disaster graph and forgot that it was just a artificially truncated proxy for inflation. Then after they got caught, they adjusted for inflation, but are still forgetting, somehow, that more people live in the US, and GDP has risen, so there are more assets to be destroyed. Th

Nov 12

Fires in Spring? It’s normal for fires to peak in Spring in NSW Greg Mullins is a former Fire and Rescue NSW commissioner and a councillor on the Climate Council, he implies in the Sydney Morning Herald that this is abnormal and that fires are starting earlier: If anyone tells you, “This is part of a normal cycle” or 

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