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By Jo Nova
Turns out, when they have a choice, the Brits don’t want Net Zero or Mass Immigration
The English Council Elections won’t change the UK parliament, but they are the largest most significant poll of the mood of Great Britain. How bad is it? Half the headlines about the PM Kier Starmer are quoting him vowing that he won’t be quitting. It’s that bad. Labour have lost 1,406 seats, and the Tories have lost 557.
Results are still being counted, but extraordinary things are happening. Nigel Farage’s Party — Reform UK — have stormed into more than 1,444 councilor seats in England (out of about 5,000), taken from Labour as well as the Tories. The Conservatives haven’t recovered. The Green wave didn’t happen. As Ross Clark said, “they were supposed to be ‘the insurgent party of the left’ and there was talk of them entering government as part of a left wing coalition”.
Restore Britain, is new party launched by ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe, and endorsed by Elon Musk. They are so new, they only stood in 10 seats, but won all of them. Where Reform UK wants to stop the boats and deport illegal migrants. Restore UK […]
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By Jo Nova
Means, motive, and opportunity. It looks for all the world like China used dirty tactics to corner the rare earth processing plants of the world.
Michael Kern argues that for the last twenty years, every time a Western rare earth mining operation looked like it was about to build its own processing plant, Chinese producers would flood the market and crash the price of the metal. The investment case would evaporate and the company would go out of business.
This kind of predatory capitalism is all very well until the nice guys realize what’s going on and ban your products from their defense contracts, back their own start ups, and those companies develop their own processing techniques, which is what is starting to occur in the US now.
China was treating rare earths as a strategic weapon, while the West assumed the free market was free, and was hooked on the cheaper stuff.
All’s fair in love and war, but dirty tricks have their own price.
How China Killed Every Rare Earth Competitor Before It Could Get Started
By Michael Kern, Oilprice
The West handed its rare earth processing […]
ConocoPhillips Greater Esofisk area, Norway.
By Jo Nova
Look how fast Norway is moving
While Australia and the UK pat themselves on the back, telling themselves that no one is interested in fossil fuels, the market price tells another story. Norway, meanwhile, is going gangbusters on project development.
The EcoWorriers are not happy. These gas and oil fields were closed down in 1998 but there is still twenty years of gas and oil left to dig out. Production is due to start in 2028.
The end of fossil fuels was always a myth The Blob wanted us to believe.
Norwegian government attacked over decision to reopen North Sea gasfields
— By Miranda Bryant and Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian
Approval for exploration in 70 new areas prompts fierce backlash from fossil fuel opponents
Amid sharp price rises in oil and gas since the US and Israel’s attack on Iran in February, Oslo has also given its approval for oil and gas companies to explore in 70 new locations in the North Sea, Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea.
The decision by the Labour-run government goes against the advice of the country’s […]
By Jo Nova
It couldn’t happen to a nicer parasitic committee
This is what happens when you treat your main benefactor like an idiot, and do everything possible to turn them into a vassal state of the Globalist Blob. In return for $800 million a year the UN spreads Chinese bioweapons, and throws giant junkets to reward The Blob loyalists, but nothing for the average American taxpayer.
The US pays 22% of the regular UN budget, yet the UN has no respect for American voters or their choices.
UN Running Out of Cash, Trump Unmoved
by Antonio Graceffo, Gateway Pundit
Unless collections improve, Guterres warned, the UN will run out of cash by July 2026.
Wide-scale non-payment by member states has accelerated the crisis. In 2025, 42 of 193 member states failed to pay their assessments in full, and by the February 8, 2026 due date, only 55 countries had paid.
The United States is the dominant factor. Historically the UN’s largest contributor at 22 percent of the regular and peacekeeping budgets, roughly $820 million per year, the U.S. paid no dues at all in 2025 and accounts for approximately […]
Image by Rakib Al Hasan from Pixabay
By Jo Nova
The pagan witchdoctors are out in force —
This time an invisible spooky force called carbon dioxide is stealing away nutrients from food, at least that’s how the Washington Post propaganda team words it. It’s a “surging” culprit causing anemia in pregnant women which can lead to complications and “even death”. Stop the car! Is there no evil this molecule can not do?
This is pure climate-scare porn — carbon dioxide makes plants grow faster, and so it has this “awful” effect where crops bulk up more quickly, and without extra fertilizer, the mineral content and protein levels will be slightly diluted by the extra carbohydrate. And when I say slight, I mean barely measurably — in the last 37 years the levels of zinc in an undisclosed amount of chickpeas has fallen from 22% of our RDA to only 20%!
Let’s be clear: no one in the rich world eats chickpeas to get iron, protein and zinc, not if they can eat steak instead. All these nutrients are far higher in meat, and they are more absorbable too.
So this article is mostly at the concern-troll level. […]
By Jo Nova
Trump said he wanted Energy Dominance. And now the oil tankers are heading to fill up at the USA.
Compare the US to Australia. Downunder there is chaos due to fuel shortages, one in four international flights have been cancelled, and inflation figures have leapt, which may lead to higher interest rates. That in turn will likely force some families to sell their homes, and others to go out of business. These are the costs of bad energy planning. Plus, we’re going cap-in-hand to China to beg for fuel. Other Australians are holding off booking holidays in July, for fear that they won’t be able to pay for the petrol to get there, or the regional pump might run dry, which is also hurting the tourism industry. The chaos, it flows.
In response the the crisis, our government has just arranged for an extra 150 million liters of fuel to arrive which should keep us going for … almost another 24 hours.
If only we had explored for oil and kept a few refineries open?
Meanwhile, the USA, run by Orange-man-bad is setting records for the export of crude oil, diesel and gasoline.
The Energy Report: […]
Reality is so cruel to climate wish fairies. | Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay
By Jo Nova
Left climate mob admits they might need to be more friendly
We know a movement is on the way down when they start to analyze what is going wrong.
Faced with the Worst Possible Outcome (Trump is still the President), one corner of the climate zealot world is starting to wonder if bundling The Climate Cause in with the Femo-Gay-Lezbian-Gaza-Project as an all or nothing package might be counterproductive. There is even awareness that they are supposed to be the compassionate ones.
Wait til they find out they manipulate, coerce and bully teenage girls and scare toddlers…
To motivate their team, they stoke their worst possible fear, and what’s worse than the climate apocalypse — well, it’s when voters choose a right wing government.
Without pluralism within the climate movement, we risk handing the future to the far right
…the two of us share a growing concern about the direction of the climate movement. A project that ought to be broad, open and compassionate has come to be dominated by a narrow set of ideological demands which […]
By Jo Nova
It’s a bankers job to manage the Indian Ocean dipole, don’t you know?
People have noticed that coal, oil and gas projects that were legal and looked profitable were still unable to get funding from the Big Bankers. You might think it was the elected government’s role to figure out the complex trade-offs of how to keep the lights on, avoid unemployment and protect the spotted quoll (and the nation). But even if the people vote, and the government approves, the bankers can still say “No”. And they did…
The Commonwealth Bank piously declared in August 2024 that they will no longer provide finance to oil and gas companies that don’t have a “Paris Transition Plan”. The bank was helpfully taking on the role of judge, jury and financial executioner.
Yet, thanks to the Straits of Hormuz, suddenly instead of earning bragging rights for their climate saintliness, they face questions about how they let the country down.
Heat on banks’ energy financing
By Sarah Ison and Rosie Lewis, The Australian
Australia’s big banks have defended their financing policies against criticism they fail to support oil, coal and gas projects, as Foreign Minister […]
by Steve Hunter
By Jo Nova
Snowy 2.0 will stand as a monument to organized crime
Big Government is the ultimate racket. The costs have been hidden, the FOIs denied, the Unions are raking in the cash, and a foreign corporation is soaking in easy money. And in the end, the stored power is likely to be a horrible $200/MWh*, making it 6 times the price of brown coal plant power.
Malcolm Turnbull promised us it would cost $2b and take four years, and here we are, nine years later, with just $40 billion and three more years to go….
There is something in this project for every grifter. The incompetent management delays have added $8b in interest during construction. That will keep the Bankers happy. There are 3,000 extra workers nobody thought we’d need and they earn $250,000 each on average. And there is now $12 billion in interconnector high-voltage line costs. Like all “renewable” projects, the fuel is free but the cost to collect and distribute it burns like a magnesium flare.
Snowy Hydro 2.0 cost spirals to $42bn sparking calls for Royal Commission
By Tansy Harcourt, The Australian
The true cost […]
By Jo Nova
It’s just another hiccup on the road to Utopia
Two years ago the Victorian government banned new houses adding a gas connection. The houses had to be built “all electric”. It’s all part of a smooth and efficient transition, the government said. (And you ‘vill save money whether you like it or not.*).
However the demand for electricity in some areas is so high that the voltage falls, and some householders can only use one hotplate on the stove at a time, or they can’t get the heat pump to work at all. And naturally, they can’t charge their electric vehicle. But it’s all for a good cause — pagan weather control.
Even the ABC can’t spin this:
Victorians transitioning from gas exacerbates growing problem of undervoltage
ABC News
A network operator has warned a massive spike in power consumption from houses transitioning off gas has led to undervoltage. It is causing some households to be unable to use car chargers, cooktops and heaters.
Do the maths: by their own numbers, that’s 300,000 incidents a year where appliances fail:
CitiPower said it had received about 1,000 voltage complaints in the past […]
Image by Cortex Zone from Pixabay
By Jo Nova
A few weeks of high fuel prices have destroyed 20 years of climate propaganda, pfft!
Australians have barely mentioned drilling for oil in Australia in the last twenty years. It was unthinkable. But two new polls show a dramatic awakening. Suddenly Australian voters want more oil and gas. In the first poll, 65% support more drilling for oil and gas, and in the second poll, it was 57%. These are whopping majorities. And we’ve barely started to discuss it.
Only a small minority (just 16%) were still waving the Green flag and are opposed to oil drilling. Rarely in a democracy, do we see so many people line up on the opposite side of the government policy.
Negativity to Renewables is rising. I don’t see how the Net Zero forced revolution is going to survive high fuel and electricity prices.
Surging support for new refineries, oil and gas drilling, and biofuels
By Geoff Chambers, The Australian, April 17th
More than 70 per cent of Australians support the development of new fuel refineries and 65 per cent of voters back more oil and gas drilling in […]
By Jo Nova
Finally, the horror show that is “renewable energy” has had one expose on the mainstream media. A full hour of hard hitting investigation into the environmental destruction, the clubbed koalas, the dead bats, and the poor whipped slaves of Africa.
For the first time, there are none of the usual caveats explaining how climate change is still a threat and we will “have to” do something.
And Liam Bartlett mentions China or Chinese involvement more than 50 times. That will bite hard with Australians feeling the cost-of-living squeeze and it will be a dark new theme for most mainstream TV watchers who are used to soaking in the green fairytale story.
The awful truth of our renewable fantasy is that it’s so uncompetitive, it’s so uneconomic, that we have the second largest reserves in the world for Cobalt, but we can’t afford to mine it, because it would push up the price or renewables even higher.
Renewable energy is so uneconomic we have to use slave labor in Africa to even pretend it’s affordable.
In Liam Bartlett’s questioning at the end Bowen tells us we are 150 million kilometers from the sun, like a grade […]
Facebook “Crap Home Battery Installs Australia”. It seems the inverter fell off the wall, but luckily missed the gas bottles.
By Jo Nova
It’s like the “Pink Batts” debacle but this time with potentially explosive electrochemical gear
The costs have blown out in the subsidized home battery scheme– and now so have the safety standards.
Costs of the Cheaper Home Batteries Program were supposed to be $2.3 billion but when homeowners realized they got huge subsidies for installing bigger batteries than they needed, they … installed bigger batteries than they needed. Thus and verily the Cheaper Home Batteries Program blew out to $7.2 billion. And since most of the lucky homeowners won’t be sharing their battery with the voracious energy cartels, their batteries will sit at home barely used.
The government only woke up to their own inept scheme after 160,000 home units had been installed. Then they suddenly had to slap an end point on the scheme in order to stem the bleeding. So just as night follows day — that created a rush to install as many batteries as possible before the deadline, eventually reaching 250,000. Ponder that a 25kWh battery (the average size in Australia) […]
Sadly we lost Tom Quirk a week ago, and his funeral is in Melbourne today at 11am.
Tom Quirk
Some readers may remember his great contributions at this blog. He trained as a Nuclear Physicist, attended Harvard Business School and was a Fellow at Oxford. Not exactly the stereotypical knucklehead climate denier, he worked at Fermilab and CERN, and was once Deputy of VENCorp — managing the gas and electricity market in Victoria, which made him very well qualified to point out how subsidized wind power would drive out reliable baseload generators that keep the system running (and cheap).
Tom Quirk was one of the first to show one of the biggest flaws with the Australian wind turbine fleet, was that rather than randomly not working, they will all stop working together across several states of Australia. Tom did some very original work showing that phytoplankton are a much bigger source and sink of CO2 than most people realize. He also showed that temperatures in Melbourne were largely flat for 150 years from 1855 to 1995 before the BOM changed the site. He queried Bureau of Meteorology adjustments with criticism that is still relevant today. And demonstrated […]
By Jo Nova
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is open, but Donald Trump says “wait”.
In other words, the Iranians have blinked first, but the US Navy will stick around until the deal is done properly. Iran has agreed to give up the enriched uranium. It was a “GREAT AND BRILLIANT DAY FOR THE WORLD!” Donald Trump wrote on TruthSocial.
Ships apparently are waiting for insurance calls and confirmation.
Like a comedy team, France and the UK hosted a multinational teleconference call and bravely offered to lead a mission to protect freedom of navigation in the Strait, which they’ve now realized is important to “the whole world”. Trump wryly remarked that: “Now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from NATO asking if we would need some help”. He told them to stay home, “UNLESS THEY WANT TO LOAD UP THEIR SHIPS WITH OIL“. Adding that “They were useless when needed, a Paper Tiger!”
The Australian Prime Minister must be thrilled that he might be spared from further ignominy, as Australia’s pathetic state of energy vulnerability is obvious to everyone, and, if the Strait isn’t opened, we may be mere weeks away from […]
Image by AI_EmeraldApple from Pixabay
By Jo Nova
Oops the cult programming is showing…
One in five British teens hide their political views out of fear of ostracism (and half the rest probably don’t know they agree with them because they’ve never heard them speak.) We all know which side of politics has to hide their views and it’s not the trans-activist communists who believe in using power plants and plastic bags to change the weather. They’re treated like heroes and given a keynote at the UN.
But what does someone do when they believe something crazy, counterproductive and resembling witchcraft? — They call it science, and prey upon the young and impressionable. But this approach is vulnerable to people who speak the truth. One little wicked joke about the cult programming can spread like wildfire and undo years of work.
The only way to stop the truth going viral spread is a wall of mockery, ridicule and good old social ostracism.
The people speaking truth don’t need to shut down opponents with namecalling and social manipulation, but the people pushing a fantasy do — you climate denying, oil shill, racist, conspiracy theorist.
This is how the […]
By Jo Nova
Well, that can’t be good
Details are sketchy, but the Viva refinery in Corio, Geelong Victoria is reportedly on fire in a big way. This is (or was) one of Australia’s last two remaining oil refineries supplying 10% of domestic needs. Reports on X and Reddit claim the fire started with an explosion at about 11pm in Victoria, with “flames 100ft high”. The glow is visible from Melbourne. Others report the fire started in the “gas separator unit”. with some saying they heard, as many as 7 or 8 explosions. The Victorian Fire Dept has issued a watch and act and stay indoors for people in Geelong. As many as 16 fire units are attending a “Building Fire” on Refinery Rd, Corio which (at this time) is not yet under control.
What are the odds? Speculation is rife: “I’m sure it’s just a coincidence” says every second person.
We’re praying the staff are somehow OK, and someone has sent the SAS to guard our other refinery.
Corio Refinery Fire Reddit
But we’ll be fine, right? As our energy Minister Chris Blackout Bowen says: “No war can impede the flow of sun to Australia” (only […]
By Jo Nova
Two trendlines and the climate distraction converged
Just before Easter, the Page Research Centre put out a policy paper that ought to rivet Australians.
We have so casually sleepwalked (sprinted) blindfolded to the edge of cliff. Twenty years ago we were self-sufficient in liquid fuels, then we got distracted trying to change the rain and clouds in 2100 AD. Meanwhile in 2013, the area of South East Asia under the potential control of China was starting to grow rapidly. It is only now, after we have closed 6 of 8 refineries, banned oil exploration and shale use in some states in an Ode to Gaia, but we find that at a moment’s notice, China could potentially put three quarters of our liquid fuel supply under threat.
“In an Asian war scenario, 76% of our liquid fuel requirements would be in immediate jeopardy.”
The situation in 2013 regarding China’s ability to control supply lines:
China’s area of denial capacity 2013
But the world is a different place in 2026:
China’s area of denial capacity 2025
How rapidly we ran towards the pit, closing refineries, assuming it didn’t matter even after China had […]
By Jo Nova
We are killing people by making energy expensive
Researchers followed 80% of the US population for two decades, and found that cold temperatures contributed to a whopping 800,000 deaths while hot temperatures were linked to only 2,000 (per year).*
They were looking at monthly temperature data in 819 locations across the US. Then they checked the cardiovascular death rates and found the burden of excess deaths is “quite substantial”.
During cold periods our blood vessels contract to reduce heat loss, which is why our skin looks slightly bluer or whiter in colder weather. But even a small reduction in volume makes our blood pressure rise. So it is not surprising that colder months are linked to significantly higher death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and coronary artery disease compared to milder periods. As the population ages and kidney disease and diabetes get worse, the deaths will increase.
Nearly every dollar we pour into preventing heat deaths will end up killing more people than it saves. It’s time Climate Ministry’s put more accurate costings on any policy aiming to reduce global temperature. We want numbers, and during cold months the people need cheap oil or gas to keep […]
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay
By Jo Nova
Engineers were warning the grid was close to crashing due to excess solar
The mass blackouts in Spain and Portugal wrecked havoc on April 28 last year. At the time everyone accountable was feigning confusion, blaming it on a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” which might have set up mysterious oscillations in the line. They were bandying around terms like “ ‘induced atmospheric vibration’ and talking about extreme temperatures (you know, like 23 degrees C). But all along, the head honchos at Red Electrica knew it was due to an excess of solar power and a lack of reliable generation, because the technical staff had told them what was coming:
“Today was really bad, you all saw it”: new audio recordings confirm that Red Eléctrica knew three months before the blackout that the system was failing
By Paula Maria, Elmundo
The Senate committee investigating the blackout heard a second round of conversations this week between private electricity companies and Red Eléctrica, the system operator. Almost a year after the incident, and with no one yet taking responsibility, the latest recordings demonstrate that as early as January 2025, […]
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