JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Sometimes Randomized Controlled Trials are not the golden trophies of
science that some say they are. (Like yesterday’s Ivermectin study).
While some say that nothing less than an RCT will do, actually,
sometimes it’s just silly to do one. And all RCT’s will wallow on the
rocks of confirmation bias if they try to study something people already
know the answer to. For a long time there were no RCT
The new (old) recipe for goodliness, and to save Ukraine now, is just
like the climate change rules. Thanks to The Putin Excuse, the IEA
suggests we cut oil use, so we need to drive 10km per hour slower, go
“car free” on Sundays, catch the bus, work from home, avoid business
travel and share our car with strangers. We’ll start right after you —
Dr Fatih Birol — Executive Director of the IEA. We’r
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Unusual rain in Australia started within days
of the Hunga Tonga dust cloud travelling across the continent On
January 15th, Hunga Tonga launched a magma-powered thunderstorm that
sent atmospheric shockwaves around the world. Ash, salt and particulates
were carried through rising columns, right through the stratosphere,
into the mesosphere and all the way up to 58 kilome
Yesterday
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Late last week a large prospective “study” showed that ivermectin was
useless so it got headline reporting at the Wall Street Journal, unlike
the other 80 controlled studies the newspaper ignored. This study is not
even a peer reviewed paper, nor is it even news — The TOGETHER Trial
announced results way back in August last year, but haven’t officially
published the paper yet. It’s a case of PR n
Mar 20
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Mar 19
Tyre Extinguishers are vandals who skulk around at night and poke
lentils in tyre valves to flatten tyres of evil SUV’s. It’s a new
fashion in “climate activism” and it makes sense in a narcissistic
pagan-religion kind of way. Those who do it are convinced they are
smarter than everyone else, and their latest “plan” is to show you what
nice, caring people they are by wasting your time and general
This is a thread for voters in South Australia to talk about today’s
state election. After the Labor Party wrecked the electricity grid in
South Australia, the Liberals appear to be set to lose after only one
term. Please, locals or anyone with insight, tell us what is going on.
I’ve only listened to 20 minutes of ABC radio in the last 3 months, but
even 2000km away, I was informed of the Ambulan
Mar 18
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Mar 17
Death by committee has a whole new meaning. The Australian Health
Practitioner Regulation Agency Australians believe that their doctors
are independent, because we have public and private medical systems and
lots of “competition” between medical groups that appear to be run like
businesses. What they don’t realize is that the bureaucrats entirely own
the profession and it’s a monopoly from end to
Mar 16
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It’s
was the last chance to save The Planet, but nevermind? Get ready for
the Great Reenergize-ment, we’ve reached a tipping point. Even the elite
believers know a real threat when they see one. The ruling class,
sitting on cushy taxpayer salaries, weren’t threatened by higher fuel
prices and carbon taxes, but Russian missiles are another thing. Only a
few months ago we had only “ten years til the
Mark Mills at the Manhattan Institute has been sending warning signals
for years that the push for intermittent energy in the west could have
drastic geopolitical consequences. Here he explains how the conflict in
the Ukraine has brought the drastic consequences upon us ahead of
schedule. Ukraine and the Great Energy Reset Naivete about energy
realities robbed the U.S. and its allies of important
Mar 15
The
good news is that the experts are very unhappy: Today’s disappointing
federal court decision undoes 20 years of climate litigation progress in
Australia The Conversation The federal court today unanimously decided
Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley does not have a duty of care to
protect young people from the harms of climate change. The ruling
overturns a previous landmark win by eight h
Mar 13
Just in case people were thinking a few nuclear bombs don’t matter:
“…even a relatively “minor” exchange of nuclear weapons would wreck the
planet’s climate in enormous and long-lasting ways.” Despite sounding
crazily disconnected from reality, Robinson Meyer is slightly less crazy
than the cult people he’s trying to reach. Many “artists” and “climate
concerned progressives” have leapt on the lat
Mar 12
Suddenly central bankers want to reach right into your wallet, follow
you around, nudge your every decision, or just stop you spending your
dollars less wisely than the average bureaucrat thinks you should. These
are the same people who *know* you should be saving the Earth by eating
crickets. This is a great essay, part fiction, part nightmare, but
already knocking on our doors. A Central Bank D
Mar 11
When the unvaccinated die of Covid they get turned into advertising
material for Pfizer. But when people died in the weeks after after
getting the vaccines, the companies, the institutions and the media did
their utmost to hide it. A group of doctors and researchers wanted the
326,000 pages of FDA data used to approve the Pfizer vaccine, but
neither the FDA or Pfizer would give it them. So the do
There is talk about Soviet funding for green groups to block shale gas
fracking and coal mining. This is not a new thing. [Indeed Jo wrote last
week: Russian-linked groups donated to anti-frakking Green groups
because they love the planet right?] In case you were wondering why we
have no nuclear power and why the sensible old-time conservation
movement turned into a radical green monster, the lat
Russia says the US has bioweapon research labs in Ukraine, an
outrageous claim that was instantly fact-checked to oblivion until
Senator Marco Rubio stopped the show by asking a US official under oath:
Does Ukraine have chemical and biological weapons? Victoria Nuland, US
Under Secretary of State, could have said “No” but instead she said:
Ukraine has Biological research facilities… which in fact
Mar 09
Warwick McKibbin reckons Vladimir Putin might be the best thing that’s
ever happened to the energy transition. Speaking at The Australian
Financial Review Business Summit on Tuesday, the economist, academic and
former Reserve Bank board member argued that surging commodity prices
caused by the war in Ukraine could force the urgent shift to clean
energy to accelerate. Really? In the parallel unive
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…. The World Economic Forum, was founded in 1971 by German engineer and
economist Klaus Schwab where he hit upon the winning idea of organizing
a ski holiday for the worlds richest people, described as a management
training session or something tax deductible. Like most of these
conferences, once the richest of the rich were there, everyone else had
to be as long as the riff-raff were kept out. T
Mar 08
The joke Biden Sells Alaska Back To Russia So We Can Start Drilling For
Oil There Again Babylon Bee ANCHORAGE, AK—The deliberate and
premeditated invasion of Ukraine by brutal dictator Vladimir Putin has
forced the US to reassess the importance of energy independence. With
this new resolve, the Biden Administration has taken its first step
toward increasing oil production for Americans by selling
Mar 07
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Mar 05
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A year ago, one man sold his soul. People were dying, hospitals were
overflowing, but even by January 2021 we already knew ivermectin could
save three quarters of those who died. Randomized trials of 2,282 people
showed that only 2% of people on ivermectin died, compared to nearly
10% of the hapless people who missed out, yet he picked the “missed out”
path. Everything pointed in the right direct
Mar 04
The eye-opening video about Chinese people in Ukraine, who weren’t
evacuated, and who were “permitted” by the CCP to be excited at the
arrival of Putin’s tanks, even hanging out Chinese flags to welcome
their Russian comrades until suddenly they realized that wasn’t such a
good idea. The CCP Flags were hurriedly packed away and some went so far
as to pretend to be Japanese… because some of the ma
Who
were those Useful Idiots… Strategically, Russia would be crazy if it
weren’t funding Green Groups to scare the West out of using its own
resources and hobbling its own energy grid. Russia has the motive, the
means and the opportunity. Ask not whether Putin was funding some
Greens, but whether Putin would not be. These dark money trails across
international borders are almost impossible to pin
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Mar 03
Too much to discuss still. 9.6 out of 10 based on 11 ratings
If only the $3 million dollar a day ABC could afford a science team
that could do as much research as one unpaid volunteer does in a day?
Thanks to Cliff Ollier and Ken Stewart for the BOM graph of past
Brisbane Floods. Clearly things were worse in the 1800s. If CO2 has any
effect perhaps it reduces flooding? There have always been big floods in
Brisbane | BOM Source | KensKingdom One day when th
Mar 02
At least eight people have died in dreadful flooding in South East
Queensland and Brisbane. The slow moving rain system moved south through
NSW, inundating towns, and has arrived in Sydney and surrounds, where
evacuations have begun. Despite the pain, some are already exploiting
the situation for their climate religion or their retirement plan. What
was torrential rain is now a rain-bomb, and to
Mar 01
Who will pay for the cleaning up job? By 2050, the world will be
throwing out 2 million tons of wind turbines and 6 million tons of solar
panels every year. One reason the world may be throwing away so much
not-so-renewable waste is that recycling it costs ten times as much as
what is recovered. Who would have thought that collecting low density
energy in extreme environments would create megaton
Feb 26
The World watches Ukraine. As the citizens are turning themselves into
an army, they are being trained on Twitter, on how to beat tanks, pick
strategic targets, and of course, there will be a propaganda campaign.
Nothing can be verified. Except for the remarkable bravery of the
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who knocked back an offer to
be evacuated, and is fighting with the army. He i
John
Hussman warns that people may not realize how much stocks are likely to
crash Dr David Evans supplied some interesting links and adds “The
biggest theme in markets is that ratios eventually revert to their mean
(or average). No, it’s not different this time. A return to average on
this graph implies a drop of about 75%.” Hassman Margin-Adjusted P/E (US
stock market price-earning ratio (adjust
Feb 25
Marc
Morano is On Fire The man from Climate Depot … Morano: ‘In 2020, the
United States was back to 1952 with energy, not just independence, but
energy dominance’ MORANO: “We are already seeing – the first part of it
is in California, $6 a gallon. Gas is already up a dollar. Estimates are
seven, $8 a gallon possible with recession if Putin, who we’ve given
all of this power to by literally shuttin
Just
another day in a cold Biotech War? “The international team of
researchers suggest the virus may have mutated to have a furin cleavage
site during experiments on human cells in a lab.” Image: Scientific
Animations To put this in perspective the whole virus is essentially a
code with 29,000 bases in a row, and this story is about a sequence of
19. The code is in the same four letter “alphabet”,
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Join
Peter Ridd, Jo Nova, Walter Starck and Alan Moran for the Great Barrier
Reef Webinar Tuesday March 1: Sign up here: AEF Webinar: Is the Great
Barrier Reef Dying or Thriving? Photo: Wise Hok Wai Lum One side of
politics has just spent another billion dollars to “save the reef”. The
other side of politics may spend even more. But how much is our national
policy set by scientific data and how mu
Feb 23
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Feb 21
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Cristian
Terhes of the European Parliament: “he’s exactly like a tyrant, a
dictator. He’s like Ceaușescu in Romania” If even you raise doubts,
about the vaccine, you are outcasted. What’s the difference between what
he does and what happened under the inquisition? See on one side they
say, we should not believe in God, and on the other they say “we should
believe in science. “ Science is not about
Do
EV’s make good reefs? h/t to Paul Homewood who notes The BBC didn’t
mention the burning lithium battery story. The Felicity Ace cargo ship
caught fire on Wednesday last week: German newspaper Handelsblatt
reported that an internal email from Volkswagen USA stated that the ship
was carrying 3,965 vehicles of the VW, Porsche, Audi and Lamborghini
brands. It’s not clear if the fire started in an E
Feb 20
The Canadian government is so loved that the people who work for it
want to hide their faces and names. What government transparency means
now: The whistleblowers will be exposed The riot squad dress like Antifa
and have no name badges. And the tow trucks in Ottawa were allowed to
hide their truck branding so they suffer no pushback for towing away
peaceful protestors. Not
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