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By Jo Nova Imagine an energy system so broken that the government
forced The People to buy generators that only work (randomly) 30% of the
time and told them they would still have to pay the generators even
when their product was useless. Britain wasting ‘millions a day’ in
energy as wind farms told to turn off while bills soar The UK has been
squandering an estimated £1billion a year in energy a
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By Jo Nova The core baseload of the European grid is in trouble, and
there is no back up. If the rest of Europe had enough coal or nuclear
power, this wouldn’t be so bad, but they were all too worried about
heatwaves in 2100 they forgot… Half the French Nuclear Fleet will not be
back in time for winter and there is no other nation that fill the gap.
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By Jo Nova Killing the planet, one COP convention at a time. Nothing
says “believe us” like doing all the things they say we must give up.
They fly in private jets, eat steak and drink from plastic water
bottles. Obviously, if they really thought CO2 was planetary poison,
they wouldn’t be acting this way. Unless, of course, they are
narcissistic overlords who believe CO2 is bad, but that the rule
Nov 09
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By Jo Nova Even in 1983, the media was just an unwitting wing of
Government Agencies Edward Snowden went looking for videos of former CIA
employees that the CIA “sued into silence“. He foundwhat the CIA wanted
to hide. Here, CIA officer Frank Snepp describing just how easy it was
to get journalists to write exactly the stories they hoped they would
write. All those problems we see in the media to
Nov 08
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Voting
is open, so presumably, is cheating, which will win? Betting markets
are predicting a Red Wave, but the richest nation in the world can’t
afford to use paper ballots, check ID, and can’t count the votes on
election night anymore. 2022 Midterms Forecast Don’t forget, Trump
looked like it had it in the bag on the night: Darren Beattie, Revolver
Bookies gave Trump roughly 75% odds of a second
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Jo Nova For years they told us that the green transition would deliver
cheap energy, and that if we just subsidized them enough, prices would
keep falling. The promise of free energy on the horizon led whole
nations (stupidly) to believe that closing coal plants was viable. But
now that damage is done, suddenly the Vestas chief admits that telling
people that wind can only get cheaper “was a mi
Nov 07
By Jo Nova Like a conglomerate witch-doctor cum pagan-preacher the only
thing Al Gore recycles is the overproof grade hellfire of centuries
past. Chieftain Al will stop the storms if only everyone will do as he
says and invest in his climate asset fund. For he cometh armed with
windmills that stop rain-bombs and solar panels that hold back the sea.
Like medieval Occult leaders, superstitious rain
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Nov 06
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Nov 05
More
deadly than man-made climate change Six people have died in New York
this year so far due to house fires started by e-bikes. I had no idea.
Fires from exploding e-bike batteries multiply in NYC — sometimes
fatally Matthew Schuerman, NPR NEW YORK — Four times a week on average,
an e-bike or e-scooter battery catches fire in New York City. These
bikes when they fail, they fail like a blowtorch,
Nov 04
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By Jo Nova Well that was lucky. Early reports suggest the Chinese space
junk from the launch four days ago has crashed in the Pacific 1,000 km
short of Mexico. However, if I am reading those maps (below) correctly,
on this uncontrolled reentry it only missed Australia and New Zealand by
half an hour, and just a few minutes later and it would have “landed”
somewhere in Mexico or maybe Florida. (No
Nov 03
By
Jo Nova Lo behold, I give you the sign of doom. Bioluminescent
jellyfish have traveled from the Pacific to the UK to warn of climate
change. We know this because citizen scientists have been tracking
jellyfish for at least 20 years of the Holocene, if not the other 12,000
years, and they noticed things have not stayed exactly the same. We
don’t understand the underlying ocean gyrations, current
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Nov 02
by
Jo Nova With all the calm language of a paid ad agency, the ABC is
breathless because an esoteric measure called “minimum operational
demand” has hit a record or two. This glorious moment may have only
lasted 30 minutes, and it isn’t actually a useful thing, but it’s a
“record”. In fact, “minimum operational demand” is a grid management
headache, not a badge of honor. It’s the midday moment whe
Nov 01
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By
Jo Nova China emits more CO2 than first world combined, but tells the
West to “do more” as it quietly sprints into the Space Race … China
signed the Paris Agreement, which meant nothing at all. It is now
building 60% of all the new coal plants in the world while the West does
a kind of Tantric Energy Yoga — trying to run smelters with solar
panels. China’s emissions of CO2 exceed all developed
Giles, Weather balloon By Jo Nova Things are far far worse at the
Australian Bureau of Meteorology than even we realized. “If you think
your public forecasts have gotten worse, that’s because they have,” one
meteorologist says. While Australia is flooding and lives depend on
forecasts, the management of our weather bureau is cutting back on
meteorologists and on weather balloons, but they’re maki
Oct 30
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This may explain why some unlucky people got such bad reactions. Dr
Ryan Cole points out that it normally takes years to perfect the mass
production of a new class of drug products, but many people, he claims
were lucky because they got a shot “of mush” — from harried car park
pop-up clinics — if the vaccines weren’t kept cold enough they had
probably already degraded. Quality control was so poor
By Jo Nova Just as Joe Biden cancelled Keystone on his first day, the
new UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak canned Fracking on Day one. He was
appointed on Tuesday and the fracking ban was reinstated Wednesday. It
tells us exactly what his top priorities are, and perhaps also tells us
what the real unforgivable sin was that Liz Truss committed. There are a
lot of vested interests that would hate to s
Oct 29
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Oct 27
The deal has officially gone through in the last hours. Twitter belongs
to Elon. He’s calling himself the Chief Twit. He has 110 million
followers, and he is enjoying himself. Entering Twitter HQ – let that
sink in! pic.twitter.com/D68z4K2wq7 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26,
2022 Meanwhile there is apoplexy in some corners of Twitter with
warnings that the Nazi dogs of the Right are about to r
Oct 26
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by Jo Nova Things are getting serious Mum. Nearly half of Britons are
already finding it hard to pay their energy bills. Over two million UK
households are behind in their payments, and some have started
unplugging fridges, hand washing their clothes and skipping meals, and
it’s not even winter. The National Grid manager is so desperate they’re
setting up a scheme to pay people to switch off thei
Oct 25
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Oct 24
By Jo Nova Give this man a medal. Prof Norman Fenton is my favourite
commentator on vaccination statistics. He explains this so well. If this
technique is widely used, then it is a scandal. It is so utterly
dishonest, so obviously wrong, ask yourself, if groups used this trick
to report “efficacy” where were all the Professors and medical agencies
we pay to protect us? Perhaps there were other ef
Oct 23
Now for something very unusual: Tuesday night in Perth, Australia,
there will be a climate debate. Bravo to the Philosophy and Reason group
for organising it. Click to enlarge to use the code. The legendary
David Archibald and I take on Professor Peter Newman from Curtin
University – Advisor to IPCC, 2018 Premier’s (WA) Scientist of the Year,
and Councillor Ian Johnson – Current City of Swan elec
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Oct 22
By Jo Nova Why-O-Why has this taken so long? Finally we have a preprint
paper assessing SARS2 as if it might have been an engineered product
from a laboratory. We now know it was very likely a lab product and we
can probably even name the tools that were used to tweak it. The virus
appears to be too clean, lacking in the noise that all its wild type
cousins have. Random evolution in bats and pang
Oct 21
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Oct 20
by Jo Nova The scariest thing is that a communist dictator seems more
sensible than any democratic one. He’s a tyrant, true, but one that can
add up numbers. So it has come to pass that the largest coal fired
nation in the world will burn even more coal because energy security
today is more important than theoretically slowing storms in 2100 AD.
China makes no secret of it, but hardly anyone is e
Oct 19
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Oct 18
“With an EV, you don’t eliminate emissions, you just export them. You
have to dig up about 500,000 lbs of material to make a single 1000lb
battery It takes 100 to 300 barrels of oil to manufacture a battery that
can hold one barrel of oil equivalent. Demand for those minerals
(Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel) will increase between 400 and 4000%. There’s
not enough mining in the world to make enough batte
Oct 17
by
Jo Nova There is extraordinary flooding across Victoria lately in the
land of Droughts and Flooding Rains. The Australian ABC is telling us
that “flooding in Victoria is uncommon“. But a ten second search on
Trove Australia turned up the forgotten floods of 1870, just as one
example, with these glorious drawings (below). Those floods 152 years
ago seemed to affect many of the same places as the
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Oct 16
Make no mistake, the story of our lifetimes is that we got wildly
lucky. It’s not just that most our economy is no longer dedicated to
finding fuel (for our corporeal bodies or our machines) but that a vast
share of our lives is not consumed with collecting wood or dung, rolling
up hay, or gathering berries. The graph below shows a remarkable
transformation from a lifestyle where 80% of all the w
Oct 15
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Oct 14
by Jo Nova “Trust the science” has morphed into “attention-seeking
children toss soup on 8o million dollar painting”. This can happen when a
generation is taught that their own culture is worthless, that weather
is controlled by light bulbs, and that vandalism is an achievement. This
is end stage absurdity in the climate religion. Their words don’t even
make sense: “Are you more concerned about t
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Oct 13
By
Jo Nova It’s the Reality TV version of “Democracy” For three years the
workers of France revolted in Yellow Vest protests week after relentless
week, even though the media ignored them, they kept returning.
President Macron had to do something that looked like he was listening.
So 150 people won the lucky dip draw to be the actors in a show
pretending to be “the People’s Government of France”.
Oct 12
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By
Jo Nova The Wall Street Journal — bless them — analyzed 12,000
officials at 50 federal agencies and sifted through 850,000 financial
assets to uncover a seething well of graft, grift and pilfering. As the
WSJ prosaically says, “The federal government doesn’t maintain a
comprehensive public database of the mandatory financial disclosures of
all senior executive-branch officials. So The Wall Stre
Oct 11
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