Sunday, December 29, 2019

29 December - JoNova

Climate Change to make Boxing Day cricket extinct. ABC and Monash make history extinct.
It’s a taxpayer funded bonfire: The billion dollar ABC does cut-n-paste “journalism” from the largely taxpayer funded Monash Uni, which wrote a one-sided, badly researched piece as advertising for The Australian Conservation Foundation. Not only have Australians played cricket in 42 degree heat a thousand times before, but on days when the sun was obscured by smoke from bushfires. It’s all easy t
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Dec 24

Wishing everyone a wonderful day today. Thanks for all the support! Rating: 9.6/10 (63 votes cast) Rating: 9.6/ 10 (63 votes cast)

Dec 23

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Here’s the anti-witchdoctor kit for bushfires and “climate change” Hi to all the new readers. Keep these graphs handy… To Recap: In order to make really Bad Fires we need the big three: Fuel, oxygen, spark. Obviously getting rid of air and lightning is beyond the budget. The only one we can control is fuel. No fuel = no fire. Big fuel = Fireball apocalypse that we can;t stop even with help from Ca

Dec 22

The conversation Australia needs: should we prevent fires with prescribed burns or solar panels? The wildfires in NSW so far have burned 2,700,000 ha or, if it were one square area –a box 164km x 164km and destroyed at least 720 houses (that was Dec 11). The dilemma: will it be managed fires, or unmanaged wildfires to reduce the fuel? Or if you are Tim Flannery who says it’s “immoral not to connec

Dec 20

Winning! The 1896 heatwave story is going viral and the ABC is reduced to weak, late excuses Australians are realizing that our hot history has been hidden from us. We’ve set a new site traffic record with around 100,000 people checking in since Wednesday, plus thousands more reading the story elsewhere like Catallaxy and Facebook. Thank you for sharing! We first posted the 1896 heatwave here firs
If you can help me, I can fight back against the freeloaders The war on science continues, and the bank account needs substantial help. More ammunition to keep exposing corruption, incompetence, hysteria and history. This year the climate debate reached a new level of frenzy. The upsurge began around the same time as the US midterms in November 2018. Suddenly chieftains of voodoo got their mojo ba

Dec 19

They declare a climate emergency and use children as political weapons and wonder why children are distressed? ABC needs to run advice columns now dealing with the aftermath of watching the ABC: How to talk to children about climate change ABC Radio National By Sarah Scopelianos It’s bad: … one protest, against the Adani coal mine, sparked a “tough moment” for her son, who was around six at the t

Dec 18

Tuesday was Australia’s hottest day on record sayth the Bureau of Meteorology. And perhaps it was. But look at the temperatures reported in newspapers across the country during the month of January in 1896 when people were going mad with axes, dropping dead in coaches and railway stations and birds were falling lifeless from the trees? Emergency trains were ferrying people from the country to the

Dec 17

The big decision Australia faces — We could try to stop all arsonists, lightning, wind, droughts and cool the entire world, or we could reduce the fuel. Which will it be? In Australia, the situation is comi-tragic. As potential record-breaking heatwave heads eastwards across the country our fire-fighters are reduced to emergency backburning– an act of sheer desperation on the verge of panic in th

Dec 16

Polls are like climate models. You can get any answer you want, but not the one you need. An immortal headline from Oct 30: The Guardian declares: Climate crisis affects how majority will vote in UK election – poll Survey also finds two-thirds of people agree climate is biggest issue facing humankind Damian Carrington Environment editor, @dpcarrington A majority of people in the UK say the climate

Dec 14

Stupid engineers think we need climate models that work and electricity that costs less than a dollar a kilowatt hour. All along we’ve been worried about FCAS, moist adiabatic lapse rates, voltage surges, and frequency drops, while the answer was staring us in the face. The cheapest way to change the global climate is to call men petty names, bully them into submission and kick their truck nuts.
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Experts predict a warmer world will be “geologically turbulent”. Join the dots, get a solar panel, and stop the world cracking up ok? Below one national news outlet speculates about the effects storms, melting ice and floods have on crustal plates, and fault lines. It’s possible, unknown, or at least not-entirely-ruled-out that man-made CO2 could maybe theoretically lead to earthquakes, volcanoes

Dec 12

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
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
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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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 09

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

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 t 

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