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The Guardian wins Voodoo Bingo — little Ice Age caused by Volcanoes, White men and CO2
by Jo Nova / 9h
The Wheels Slowly Turn on the Shifting Sands of The Narrative After years of saying the Little Ice Age was just a European, or Northern Hemisphere event, now apparently it was more global. It’s just that it was caused by volcanoes and white guys. Climate crisis: what lessons can we learn from the last great cooling-off period? Michael Marshall, The Guardian The ‘little ice age’ of the 14th to the
Don’t believe the headlines: Google Trends for “climate change” are not rising, but something very weird is going on…
98by Jo Nova / 2d
What started as a minor an Australian headline turned into a glimpse of a mysterious world-wide phenomenon. The Australian ABC tells us that Australian searches for climate change are up 5000%: …. But even the ABC admits no one is really talking about it — apparently Australians are secretly thinking about climate change at home on their computer: Discussion of climate policy may be conspicuously

YESTERDAY

Mayhem on the Australian Grid continues — Record prices, factory shutdowns, emergency warnings
by Jo Nova / 1d
Generation tonight…. Just another week in the Transition we (Don’t) have to have With 65 Glorious Gigawatts the Australian grid system has a vast excess (theoretically) of generation capacity, yet it’s so fragile that the loss of an interconnector, normal maintenance and a few coal turbines down — has triggered $100 million dollar price spikes. These burning pyres of money are so savage the avera
Jo Nova — “Australia – Crash Test Dummy of Renewable Energy”: Monday night US. Tuesday morning AU
by Jo Nova / 1d
I’ll be discussing the absurdity of Destroying Perfectly good Electricity Grids in Australia with the Friends of Science in Calgary, Canada with a presentation then Q&A. It will be live 7pm MDT Monday evening in Canada/USA and Tuesday 10th morning in Australia (11am EST, 9am WST). It will be available to watch afterwards as the wonderful Ian Plimer’s is now from last week. “Australia – Crash Test

MAY 07

Rafe Champion guest post. Advance warning of a global food crisis
by Rafe Champion / 3d
This is a remarkably prescient piece on the fourth quarter of 2020 written by Goehring & Rozencwajg Natural Resource Investors. Don’t ask me how to pronounce their names. The really interesting part is about food rather than energy. There is a lot of dense information about the impediments to the green transition and the first part is a warning to green investors who are flooding the market to ge

MAY 06

PfizerGate: new documents confirm vaccine goes to liver, spleen and ovaries in animal studies
by Jo Nova / 4d
JudicialWatch has obtained 466 pages of information through FOIA, which should have been available to everyone all along — what is “Informed Consent”? Not only does the vaccine take much longer to be degraded and removed from our bodies but it spreads far from the injection site and concentrates in the liver, spleen, adrenal glands and ovaries. And Pfizer knew this, but hid it, and all the agenci

MAY 05

Another Tech Oligarch with a billion dollars to give to a Uni for the “climate cause”
by Jo Nova / 5d
Remember when Uni students were “repulsed” at the idea that Bjorn Lomborg, an economic but not even a science skeptic, might get $4m from a legally elected government to set up a centre that was passively or actively rejected by every university in Australia? How dangerous was that $4 million? John Doerr gives $1.1 billion to Stanford for new climate school; largest gift in Stanford history In th

MAY 04

2000 Mules: The election was “organized crime”
by Jo Nova / 6d
2000 mules is in 300 US theatres from Saturday May 7th. It premiered last weekend to reviewers. Instructions far below on how to watch it since it might be a while before Warner or Disney pick it up. Dinesh D’Souza has to reinvent a whole new way of distributing it. Tierney: They have proof I saw Dinesh’s movie “2000 Mules” last night. It provides massive evidence and concrete verifiable proof (d

MAY 03

Scorching electricity price spikes in NSW and Queensland
by Jo Nova / 7d
Brisbane on May 3rd was a glorious 15 to 25C (or 60F – 77F) and yet the price of electricity was shocking. The scale of the graph is so distorted that all the normal price gyrations fall to nothing, and there is only the spike — a full hour of $14,000 burning for every megawatt, and the state needing 7,000 megawatts. The demand level, or load is not unusual, but it’s about $100 million in electri

MAY 02

Is Australia a sovereign nation or just a state of Pfizerland?
by Jo Nova / 8d
Don’t mention the Australian vaccine: The TGA bans Aussie Professor from talking about his work Australia has a mini Ministry of Truth already. It’s called the TGA. Australians can probably still get a Pfizer vaccine in chemists and carparks across Australia, but they still need to fly to Iran to get an Australian-made vaccine. The good news is that at least this week it’s legal for Australians to

MAY 01

Great moment in Academic rigor: The Conversion bans skeptics, and “surprise” finds their readers want climate action
by Jo Nova / 9d
The Conversation accidentally provides a great case study in confirmation bias It’s how the fake consensus in science was created in the first place. Just sack the skeptics, poll the survivors, and pretend you’ve “discovered” something scientific! The Conversion gets excited in 2022 A staggering 10,000 people took part in our #SetTheAgenda poll, and voters’ number one issue was climate change. “Cl

APR 30

Day One of the Ministry
by Jo Nova / 10d
Good: some in the US are doing something Lauren Boebert leads effort to defund Biden Administration’s ‘disinformation’ board Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., has authored legislation to shut down a new Department of Homeland Security board designed to police misinformation. Boebert’s legislation would defund the “Disinformation Governance Board” and ensure the federal government doesn’t have role in

APR 29

Australian wholesale electricity prices have doubled in the last year (and it’s because we don’t have enough coal power)
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by Jo Nova / 11d
Luckily for Energy Oligarchs, Australian electricity prices have bounced right back to pre-pandemic insanity. Wholesale rates are romping around $170 dollars a megawatt hour in April across the whole national grid… The media mouthpieces are blaming it on outages of coal turbines — even though wind power fails every week, and solar fails every day. If unreliable generators cause high prices, then
Elon buys Twitter and suddenly there is a Ministry of Truth
by Jo Nova / 11d
It’s like we’re living in a satirical movie — Idiocracy comes to mind, but these people have real names. The new Chief of Thought Police in the US is Nina Jankowicz, who would fit right in singing on The Hunger Games. She thinks the Right deals in highly emotional rhetoric, but she’s the one who said women can’t use the Internet because it’s just too upsetting for them. She claims that anyone who

APR 27

Rafe Champion guest post. Business Council, the judas sheep.
by Rafe Champion / 13d
The judas sheep is trained to lead the way into the abattoir. literally: an animal, especially a sheep or a goat, used to lead others to slaughter; – figuratively: any person or thing used as a decoy to lure people into being caught, arrested, etc. The Business Council of Australia and some other industry bodies, and all the agencies charged with planning and regulating the power industry have be
Denmark suspends Covid vaccination campaign
by Jo Nova / 13d
What a contrast. Victoria Australia and the Northern Territory are sacking thousands of teachers for not getting their third injection. And in Western Australia, from tomorrow, the unvaccinated will be allowed to dance in packed nightclubs, but they still can’t go to work and earn money to support their families, for “health reasons” (the health of Pfizer?). Meanwhile, Denmark is going to pause v

APR 26

Rafe Champion guest post. Carbon taxes and RE fails as usual in SA.
by Rafe Champion / 14d
Alan Moran published an account of the carbon taxes that both the Coalition and the ALP support. In The Spectator he spelled out the cost of two forms of carbon taxation that we have at present and on top of that the ALP is determined to impose a great deal more. Read the story here Stoking the fires of energy policy The existing taxes arise from the RE mandates that increase the amount of wind a
Apoplexy!: MSNBC host warns that Musk could use Twitter to silence candidates and influence elections.
by Jo Nova / 14d
The video will become legendary. An MSMBC host creates great satire accidentally. There is truly nothing funnier than this MSNBC host ranting about what Elon Musk could do to Twitter, and accidentally giving a perfect description of how Twitter has actually operated for the last five years pic.twitter.com/bskfBHQGON — Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) April 26, 2022 So Ari Melber (the host) knew w

APR 25

Elon Musk gets Twitter: A Grandmaster Chess move for Free Speech, or a high stakes bet against Monster Funds?
by Jo Nova / 15d
The deal everyone is talking about, that has just gone through: Elon Musk taking Twitter private in $44 billion deal Reuters … NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) – Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) for $44 billion cash on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world’s richest person. It is

APR 24

Rafe Champion guest post. Tasmania burning GAS (correction, not oil) in prolonged wind drought
by Rafe Champion / 16d
This morning at sunrise the wind across the NEM was average (29% of capacity) with interesting variations between the states. Most of the states were close to balance with some flow of power from Queensland through NSW and Victoria to Tasmania. My main purpose to track these numbers is to see how often SA depends on coal power from Victoria which is always when the wind is less than average betwe
Monday Open Thread
by Jo Nova / 16d
Anzac Day in Australia. Lest We Forget. 10 out of 10 based on 12 ratings

APR 23

Tetanus vaccines work so well we may not need the ten year boosters, only a 30 year one…
by Jo Nova / 17d
Who knew? A study came out way back in 2016 showing that most people still had antibodies against tetanus, or “Lockjaw” even 60 years after their last vaccination. It’s a reminder of what successful vaccination can look like. It also shows the extraordinary ability of the human immune system to acquire lifelong protection — that doesn’t happen with all diseases, but it does with things like influ

APR 22

Rafe Champion guest post. Energy Talking Points from Alex Epstein
23by Rafe Champion / 18d
His latest talking points, an Earth Day Special! Contrary to rhetoric that we’ve “destroyed the planet,” the world has never been a better place for human beings to live. Life expectancy and income have been skyrocketing, with extreme poverty (

APR 21

Germany’s triple failure in energy policy
by Rafe Champion / 18d
The failure of European energy policy has become easy to see lately although the usual suspects want to replace imported coal and gas with more green energy. They double down on the green energy policies that have failed. You couldn’t make this up, but here it is! None of this is surprising in the light of the failure of the German energiewende – the green energy transition that has been driven b

APR 20

Naughty! World’s 30 biggest Funds go “Net Zero”, but invest $550 billion in oil, gas, coal anyhow
by Jo Nova / 20d
So much for stranded assets then. Is there any better proof that “believing” in climate action is just a fashion statement? For all the talk of the end of fossil fuels, the biggest and most powerful funds in the world sign up for their “Net Zero” clubs but pour money into oil, gas and coal, hither thither, anyway. The 30 biggest funds in the world manage €42.5 trillion in assets. These funds are

APR 18

Australian electricity price doubles: CEO explains prices up due to lack of coal power
by Jo Nova / 22d
LaTrobe Valley Coal Plant There’s been mayhem quietly running on the Australian electricity market this month. Shh. April used to be an easy month on electricity markets — it’s not summer and not winter, and nothing is stretched. At least not in theory. But this month prices have been running at $150 – $250 per megawatt hour. This is a big rise, even from last month when prices were often $70 – $
Rafe Champion guest post. Hydrogen is not the new LNG
by Rafe Champion / 22d
This was actually written by Mark Lawson. We are collaborating on a collection of papers covering the main problems with intermittent energy. He appears frequently in The Spectator and he is a published writer in his own right. His website. Key points The use of hydrogen as the medium of a power export market has an obvious, major flaw. Unlike coal or gas, hydrogen can be created anywhere where t

APR 17

The warming trend in Australia since the end of 2012 is nothing.
by Jo Nova / 23d
Across the continent downunder, “the new pause” in temperatures is now 9.6 years long as measured by the most reliable system there is — UAH satellites. If and when we hit the Ten Year Pause, the National Climate Alarm Centres will all issue press releases, just like the other headline events, right? Just like the “Worst bleaching since last year”, “Hottest day since records began” in 1993. Six h

APR 16

Rafe Champion guest post. The Dark Side of Wind and Solar Power
54by Rafe Champion / 24d
We are now alert to the failure of the green energy transition and even more alarming for genuine environmentalists is the fact that “decarbonization” policies are wreaking more havoc on the planet than global warming ever will. That has been going on for decades in plain sight and Michael Moore gave a glimpse of that ugly picture in his documentary film Planet of the Humans. No wonder that the u

APR 15

Guest post by Rafe Champion. Trouble in RE paradise
by Rafe Champion / 25d
I have been expecting a shakeout in the RE industry for some time because in Australia more and more providers are feeding into a static market. In recent years the demand in the grid has possibly even declined due to the flight of power-intensive industries although the demand for power is projected to increase a great deal in future due to population growth and the anticipated explosion of numb

APR 14

Guest post by Rafe Champion. Energy security on the edge of a cliff
by Rafe Champion / 26d
We are approaching a tipping point in the electricity system where there will not be enough dispatchable power available to get through windless nights. When solar and wind power are both out of action at the same time, clearly the lights will go out unless there is 100% backup from conventional power. Forget about grid-scale storage, there is none in sight for the foreseeable future that is feas
A corrupt invasion ruined by Corruption
by Jo Nova / 26d
Character is destiny Daniel Hannan explains that Putin was undone by corruption Bribery is no way to build an empire. Putin’s intelligence and military bureaucrats didn’t believe in the Russian Empire, and they kept the cash they were supposed to use for bribes in Ukraine. Then lied about the bribes and ultimately left Putin in a precarious position. But they too are vulnerable. Indeed Ukrainians

APR 13

APR 12

Don’t miss Benny Peiser speaking in Australia: The Energy Crisis
by Jo Nova / 28d
As a director of The Australian Environment Foundation I am delighted we were able to bring Benny Peiser out from the UK. Bookings need to be done in the next few days! Australian Environment Foundation Dr Benny Peiser who heads up the London based The Global Warming Policy Foundation, is visiting Australia and speaking at three major events in Sydney 26 April, Brisbane 27 April and Melbourne 28
Killing eagles is fine, just get your permit first
by Jo Nova / 28d
Dead birds save the world kids! Welcome to Your Green Dystopia. The wind turbines at ESI Energy killed 150 eagles in the last ten years and last week the company was fined $8 million dollars “or $53,300 per carcass”. Which sounds someone cares about these birds. But don’t think the The Fisheries and Wildlife Service (FWS) are outraged at the deaths of eagles. The real problem was not the slaughter

APR 11

How did that happen? Two minutes of open discussion of vaccine side effects on National TV
by Jo Nova / 29d
What’s remarkable is that a conversation had by so many on the internet has finally made it, for a moment, onto television. No surprise it happened on a footy show. It certainly wasn’t going to happen on The 7:30 Report, Four Corners, or 60 minutes. A star Australian football player had a “scary” incident with nausea, dizziness, and heart irregularities and missed a lot of the game this weekend.
Can anyone still pretend the Media are not a wing of the Democrats?
by Jo Nova / 29d
Having sold their souls not-covering Biden-family corruption, election scandals, Pharmaceutical malfeasance, and rackets running through politics and science, it’s no surprise that barely 1 in 6 Republicans trust most media outlets. Mass lies will do that. Look at the vast partisan gulf in the poll below which asked “how trustworthy do you rate the news media…“. Can anyone look at this graph and

APR 10

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