JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
EPA Part 1: Has the EPA done due diligence on the IPCC Climate Report? (Has anyone?)
The WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) wants every new project
to aim for carbon neutrality, costing billions, almost certainly
increasing pollution overseas, but hoping to lower temperatures over WA
by 2100 AD. The EPA is a scientific advisory body — the government
doesn’t have to follow their advice — but if it does, and the advice was
wrong — who is responsible for loss and damages wh
So much for being “funded by fossil fuels” — they not only don’t fund
me, Big Oil won’t even let me speak It’s all sweetness and light on the
Woodside’s “part-of-the-solution” home page. But a ton of industrial
bricks are coming for those who dissent. Part of what solution? In March
I was invited to present the FESAus Christmas function in December this
year. They’re the Formation Evaluation Soci
The UK is home to the longest single running temperature series in the
world, and Paul Homewood caught up with the latest data. Two hundred
years before the first coal fired power plant opened the summer of 1666
was hotter than the summer of 2019 in the centre of the UK. Global
warming is “still within the noise”. There’s a warming trend there, but
this fantastic long dataset rather puts it in pe
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It
could have been headlined: How to host Climate Tupperware Parties It’s
another ABC coaching session on how to be a useful political activist.
Having beaten Fairfax into the dirt, the ABC is gradually becoming
Time-magazine-Readers-Digest-and-Womens-Weekly rolled into one, but
aimed at teenagers. Fear of being seen as too ‘activist’ may be stopping
us from achieving meaningful sustainability By
Sep 03
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Attenborough turned a natural phenomenon into an advert for the
Climate-scare industry. As Benny Pieser at GWPF points out Falling
Walruses were turned into the new posterboy of climate change, “It would
be a sad legacy if he did not set the record straight.”” Here’s the
brief synopsis in case you don’t feel like watching walrus horror
flicks. Though this old video that Polar Bear Expert Susan Cr
Sep 02
This is a placeholder post for the proper one tomorrow. I’ve made a
submission, but the door is still open tonight. If you want a copy of
mine, please email joanne AT joannenova.com.au for an advance copy.
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Sep 01
After the dramatic loss in Tasmania at the May election the local state
Labor party has realized they went too far Green left. They are
scrambling to distance themselves from the Greens — saying that working
with the Greens was a mistake. They are even talking about working
people again as if they matter. It is a 180 shift from trying to win
votes from the Greens by adopting their policies to ope
Aug 31
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Aug 30
Sep 19, 1992 Margaret Thatcher was Speaking to the CNN World Economic
Development Conference The Grocer’s Daughter on Facebook Huge sums would
have to be transferred from richer to poorer countries and regions to
allow them to take the strain. Even then unemployment and mass migration
across now open frontiers would follow. And a full-fledged Single
currency would allow no escape hatch. The polit
The West Australian EPA is calling for submissions by Monday Sept 2.
Given the timeframe, this is a draft post — just to flag this and start a
discussion. Suggestions welcome. More coming Monday. In March the WA
EPA astonished the state by suddenly declaring that all new projects
would need to “demonstrate how they would offset all emissions from
their developments.” After an outcry these were wi
Aug 29
Right now a very rare southern SSW (Sudden Stratospheric Warming) is
taking place, possibly peaking today or this weekend over Antarctica. In
the Northern Hemisphere SSW’s happen more often and in the month
afterwards, wild polar blasts like the “Beast from the East” can peel
off. So somewhere way up at 10hPa or 30 – 50 km, there is an area that’s
warmed from -60C to close to zero. The warming up
Aug 28
The Tear Stained Flogs of Climate Science The unstoppable Tony Thomas
has collected the tears of climate scientists the world over as they
wallow in their self-inflicted heartache. For anyone who hasn’t come
face to face with the raw emotional PR power of a crying scientist,
check out Quadrant. In particular, this new study: The $2.5 million
dollar study of The Emotional Labor of Climate Scientis
The Basslink cable has gone down again, and is expected to be out of
action til mid-October. Luckily for Tasmania, the dams are at 45% full.
However in Victoria, which sits on one of the largest brown coal
reserves in the world, currently prices are hitting $300/MWh every
morning and every evening at peak time. This graph below shows 5 minute
prices for the last two days in Victoria. Every dollar
Aug 27
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Winning: The ABC news implied the G7 didn’t achieve much and was a bit
of a flop with leaders “unable to overcome their differences…” and
signing only a one page form. But for the rest of the world, the G7 was a
big success — there were no long pledges to lead the world in weather
changing voodoo. Climate was sidelined. The 2019 G7 leaders statement
was 54 times smaller than the last G7 leaders s
Aug 26
Did you get the memo? Which journalists are “just following orders”?
All groupthink minded, obedient journalists have been advised to find a
climate crisis to report on in Sept 16th which is the week before the
next UN climate summit on Sept 23. How many will obey, conveniently
serving the UN, big government activists with “free advertising”? Kip
Hansen on WattsUp spotted the National Narrative f
Aug 24
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Look who’s feeding the fake news? Global Fire Data shows this year is
unequivocally a low fire season in the Amazon. But social media tears
and outrage is running at 1000% driven by fake photos and fake facts of
the Amazon producing “20% of our planet’s oxygen”. And the so-called
media experts at the ABC fell for nothing more than hyped rumours and
fauxtrage. They didn’t check the data, didn’t as
Aug 23
Please,
sell us your low lying land Let’s play sea level bingo with the latest
advertising from the Merchants of Sea-level Scares. Hitting the media
outlets tonight — the latest “Prepare to Die” news stories claim we must
plan now for evacuees, refugees, inundation and homeless koalas. All
the usual features of marketing are there — firstly all the images they
use are from mocked up futuristic sea
Turning
up the screws Ban cars to get better weather! A UK committee of
academics and one of MP’s say cars are not compatible with life as we
know it: Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs Roger
Harrabin, BBC The Science and Technology Select Committee says
technology alone cannot solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions
from transport. In its report, the committee said: “In the
Aug 21
New
rooftop BBQ known as TeslaKebab Photo from the legal paper. Also known
as a “money printer” according to Elon. Walmart installed Tesla solar
panels on 240 stores across the US. There have been 7 incidences of fire
which Walmart claim has cost them $8.2m and were caused by negligence
on Tesla’s behalf. After a spate of fires in 2018 Walmart de-energized
all the panels. Then one more caught fire
Aug 20
Add
another billion to the cost of the Renewable Energy Target? In the last
few days Bluescope Steel (formerly BHP) has confirmed it will spend
US$700m (AU$1b) to expand it’s North Star steel mill in Ohio. So there
are multiple headlines. But back in February CEO Mark Vassella explained
exactly why they were thinking of it, and his first reason was “energy
prices”. Last week, high energy prices we
Guess
which state big business would be headed next? It’s a Quexit of the
NEM. Nationals MP, Keith Pitt is suggesting that Queenslanders could cut
their power bills if Queensland stands alone and disconnects from the
rest of the Australian National Grid. There are concerns from experts
within the energy sector that this could result in blackouts in other
states… (I bet there would be). Keith Pitt
Aug 19
Random power generators. Photo JoNova Wind and solar power are the
intermittent freeloaders on the electricity grid. They are treated as if
they’re generators, adding power to the grid, but instead they provide
something the grid doesn’t need — power that can’t be guaranteed. Random
gigawatts has the illusion of looking useful, but it’s the gift of a
spare holiday house you don’t know if you can
Aug 18
Solar Road, Normandy, France | Credit: KumKum Would you like to drive
slower, add to noise pollution and waste money? Then solar roads are for
you: The world’s first solar road has turned out to be a colossal
failure… Ruqayyah Moynihan and Lidia Montes, Business Insider Two years
after the world’s first solar road — the Normandy road in France — was
set up, it’s turned out to be a colossal failur
Aug 17
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Aug 16
Skeptics get banned, rejected, blocked and sacked from the mainstream
media yet somehow Nature has a paper on Skeptics getting too much media.
Believers don’t have to be an expert to control the news agenda, just a
Greenpeace activist, or a teenage girl. Skeptics on the other hand, can
be Nobel Prize winners, but the BBC won’t even phone them. Nature, the
former science giant, just launched the t
Aug 13
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An idea so dumb big government just might do it. Bill Gates has a plan
to cool the Earth with chalk dust John Naish, Daily Mail This initial $3
million test, known as Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment
(SCoPEx) would use a high-altitude scientific balloon (pictured) to
raise around 2kg of calcium carbonate dust — the size of a bag of flour —
into the atmosphere 12 miles above the de
Aug 12
It’s being hailed as a “soaring investment” but it’s just the fake fiat
carbon scheme that has been fiddled back to life. The EU ETS market had
too many credits and crashed down to 5 Euro or less by 2013. On deaths
door, the EU decided to cull a quarter of the credits for the EU ETS
every year starting in 2019 and the price predictably went back up. The
big success of this unnecessary unfree mark
Aug 11
Drought
Panic Over h/t to Jim Sternhill, Frank Brus, via Jim Simpson. Professor
Andy Pitman, UNSW In June Professor Andy Pitman quietly dropped a bomb:
“…as far as the climate scientists know there is no link between
climate change and drought.” “…there is no reason a priori why climate
change should made the landscape more arid.“ He’s admitting there’s
never been a scientific basis for the endles
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Aug 10
Not
what the climate models predicted This weekend it’s snowing within 90
minutes of Melbourne and Sydney. It’s snowing in far south Queensland.
In the Alps Thredbo recorded an amazing 117cm of fresh snow in two days,
while snow fell in towns that rarely get snow like Gordon near
Ballarat, Tumut, Crookwell. The highway through the Blue Mountains was
blocked. The airport was closed in Orange. TA po
Fragile
grids Over a million people customers lost power in the UK yesterday
thanks to the sudden outage of a gas and a wind plant. Some of the
countries biggest railway stations were inoperable. Passengers were
stuck on trains for up to seven hours. Others stayed in hotels, walked
miles or paid “hundreds” for taxi’s. The outpatient sections of Ipswich
Hospital were blacked out for 15 minutes when
Aug 09
Ken Stewart rates the Streaky Bay site as one of the worst he has seen
This is an influential site because it’s in a remote area, is used to
“correct” official ACORN sites, and has been running for a long time.
Last October the BOM finally moved it to a completely new (and much
better site) – only three decades too late. Strangely, they didn’t give
the new site a new station number? Normally the
Aug 08
The Steak is coming to get you. Good news, the Intergovernmental Holy
Panel has finally released the new World-Saving IPCC Diet (WSID) which
will stop storms, volcanoes and the spread of jellyfish. It also solves
all those difficult dietary questions — instead of worrying about your
weight, your blood pressure, or your brain, you can sip on a soy latte
and know that even if you get dementia from
Aug 07
During the June heatwaves in Europe NASA was studying the “Ecostress”
of various cities. The heat coming off Charles DeGualle’s Orly Airport’s
runways is easily visible from space. (As are all the other ideal
locations for putting climate change thermometers.) CORRECTED Charles de
Gaulle airport runways are (I think) beyond the top right of the heat
map. h/t To AndyG The NASA Ecostress map for Pa
Aug 06
It’s
a diesel powered electric car point: The fossil fueled electric car…
It’s becoming a joke all around the world — the EVs in Australia powered
by dirty diesel. But what’s the difference? Most EV’s in Australia are
running on fossil fuel — the generators are just hidden behind longer
extension cords. (Ones that carry 240,000V). EV’s on our grid are
running on 80% fossil fuels every day. The sig
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