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6.7 out of 10 based on 19 ratings By Jo Nova Electronic sensors can pick up phantom electrical noise In the last thirty years the Bureau has installed electronic thermometers all over the country. But unlike the old glass ones, the new sensitive equipment can not only pick up freak gusts of hot air, they can also pick up electrical interference. Theoretically, electronic thermometers could report phantom measurements induced by large electric fields, like perhaps by an airport radar as it sweeps through the electronics. Indeed as Lance Pidgeon points out, the cable that runs from the platinum resistance probe runs out of the Stevenson screen, down the pole, under the ground and pops up at the electronic data-logger some 6 to 10 meters away. This makes for a nice long aerial ready to pick up “noise” and feed it into the data-logger. Those airport radars produce huge electric fields — all it takes is slight induction of a voltage difference across the 10m cable and voila… the data logger records a “warmer” second. Here’s the small forgotten airport radar at Heathrow standing about 12 stories high. Imagine the power that puts out? David Monniaux Electromagnetic interference could also be triggered by mobile phones or radio […] May 20th, 2023 | Tags: Australian temperatures, BOM | Category: Australia, Global Warming |  Print This Post | | 8.2 out of 10 based on 16 ratings By Jo Nova With South Africa only weeks away from the start of winter, the head of the State owned Eskom warns there will be the worst blackouts on record, which is really something because some people are already going 10 – 12 hours a day without electricity at the moment. The country is allegedly at Stage 6 blackouts with “Stage 8” appearing to be a near certainty (if not there already). But apparently they are making plans to invent a “Stage 16” just in case they need it. “Luckily” South Africa may meet Climate Goals to cut emissions by 2030, though possibly destroy their civilization in the process. SA may face power cuts of up to 32 hours, says Eskom Johannesburg – South Africans should brace themselves for the possibility of being plunged into the worst darkness ever since the start of load shedding, as load shedding up to stage 16, meaning an unspecified 32 hours of power cuts, is anticipated to avert the total collapse of the grid owing to mounting demand. A document titled “voluntary” NRS048-9 edition 3, which would in unforeseen emergency circumstances allow Eskom to implement drastic load shedding beyond stage […] May 19th, 2023 | Tags: Blackouts, Electricity Grids, South Africa | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | 7.5 out of 10 based on 13 ratings By Jo Nova The EU is fracturing over energy, and not a day too soon… Signs of hope. Just as Germany recently pulled the pin on the EU’s Electric Vehicle mandate, France is now threatening to scupper the EU’s new Renewable Energy Directive unless they include a role for nuclear power. It was supposed to be signed off on Wednesday. Despite nuclear being the only reliable baseload source of “Net Zero” energy, France has had to fight for its inclusion at every step. France is gathering 16 European nations into a Nuclear Alliance World Nuclear News: France’s Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, brought together her counterparts from member countries of the Nuclear Alliance on 16 May at the Ministry for Energy Transition. A total of 16 countries were represented. In addition to the host country, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden, plus Italy with observer status, were represented. The UK was present as a guest country. “Nuclear power may provide up to 150 GW of electricity capacity by 2050 to the European Union (vs roughly 100 GW today),” the […] May 18th, 2023 | Tags: Nuclear Energy | Category: Europe, Global Warming, Nuclear Power | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Watch the whole segment on SteynOnline or ADH TV in Australia, and more coming soon. Watch at SteynOnline or ADH TV in Australia A wonderful chance to discuss some of the heavier aspects of EV cars, more dangerous car parks and car accidents, the fun of fires on cargo ships, novel ways to douse a smoking car, and the delusional need for more metal than anyone can dig up on Earth. Heavier cars means more wear and tear, more road noise, more latex in the air, and more costs to rebuild our car parks and bridges. With extra information in these posts Does 500kg matter? Heavy EV cars may break bridges and car parks It’s just a ship full of luxury cars on fire, and no one can put out the lithium batteries Net Zero by 2050? We need about 10,000 years of current Lithium production to get there first The man is a warrior — hear about his battle with OfCom which is headed to the High Court. He’s walking on hot coals for us, so help him if you can. 9.8 out of 10 based on 59 ratings […] May 18th, 2023 | Tags: Electric Cars (EV), Steyn (Mark) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.9 out of 10 based on 11 ratings By Jo Nova Peer Review has been a sixty year experiment with no control group It’s touted as the “gold standard” of science, yet the evidence shows Peer Review is an abject failure. There are 30,000 scientific journals that publish nearly 5 million articles a year, and the only thing we know for sure is that two-thirds of papers with major flaws will still get published, fraud is almost never discovered, and peer review has effectively crushed groundbreaking new discoveries. By Adam Mastroianni, Experimental History The rise and fall of Peer Review Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that’s a great thing For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run, and it included every scientist on Earth. It seemed like a good idea at the time, instead it was just rubber stamp to keep the bureaucrats safe. As government funded research took over the world of science after World War […] May 17th, 2023 | Tags: Free Speech, Monopolistic Science, Peer Review, Science | Category: Academia, Big-Government, Free markets, Free Speech, USA | Print This Post | | 7.4 out of 10 based on 14 ratings By Jo Nova Macron suggests the EU take a “break”from more environmental regulations h/t To NetZeroWatch The left side of politics is fracturing over climate and energy. The Green Party of France is calling Macron irresponsible and accusing him of “climate denial” for the sin of daring to suggest the EU already has enough environmental regulations: [Macron] insisted that, when it comes to the regulatory side, the EU is “ahead of the Americans, the Chinese and of any other power in the world.” During a speech on how to revive the French industry on Thursday at the Elysée, President Emmanuel Macron called for “a European regulatory break.” “We have already passed lots of environmental regulations at European level, more than other countries,” he said. “Now we should be implementing them, not making new changes in the rules or we are going to loose all our [industrial] players.” — Politico Macron was not suggesting anything as radical as actually unwinding Green legislation. But the mere act of not pandering 100% to sacred Green goals meant pushback for apostasy was swift and hard and a complete overreaction: Gavin Mortimer, The Spectator “…from […] 8 out of 10 based on 20 ratings 7 out of 10 based on 10 ratings By Jo Nova In terms of civilization, Niall Ferguson is speaking simple maths. The arithmetic of resources. Something which is almost never said. Niall Ferguson: “For an enormous island that is thinly populated, with enormous resources — for such an island to be ill-defended seems like the most spectacular folly… Empires, at some level, are about acquiring commodities at below market prices, or at least not trusting to the market to supply you — not to be at the mercy of the market, or the mercy of a navy, the US Navy, which China currently is. To have security China cannot be dependent on imported commodities and market prices, when you think about what that implies for Australia, its really quite scary… Australia is a prize… “If you want Peace, prepare for War. If you want War, act like it will never come. Allow your defense capability to atrophy.” The lucky country needs to prepare Alistair Rae, Stats Maps and Pix. The rulers of China would be irrational not to want more land to feed people, and control of more resources. Australia has […] May 14th, 2023 | Tags: China, Mining, War | Category: Australia, Big-Government, China, Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.2 out of 10 based on 9 ratings By Jo Nova It turns out that replicating a cow in a laboratory is not as simple as expected. A new study points at some very major and potentially very hard to solve problems with laboratory meat. We can scale up vats of bacteria in factories easily, but animal cells are very different. Muscle cells not only need a sterile complicated broth but they are basically a sitting-duck feast for any bacteria. Quote of the day: “USD 2 billion has already been invested in this technology, but we don’t really know if it will be better for the environment,” Risner said. Think of a cow as being an entire industrial production campus for meat — to deal with chemical toxins it comes with a customized chemical factory (a liver) and two industrial filter systems (kidneys), and a full immune defense force on a 24 hour watch to deal with the constant flood of microbial contaminants. Cows also have nutrient intake systems to break down grass into separate chemical components which are stored, transported and chemically tweaked to suit. All departments are self repairing, and are equipped with their own laboratory testing, messaging and alert service. The sterile […] May 13th, 2023 | Tags: Fake-meat | Category: Big-Government, Biology, Chemistry, Diet, Microbiology, USA | Print This Post | | 8 out of 10 based on 10 ratings By Jo Nova Matt Taibbi and a team of writers have created a 70 page report on the “information cartel” — the new conglomerate cabal of Big Money, Big Government and Big Tech that wants to censor and nudge you into servitude and obedience. Facebook promptly censored his report on censorship. Taibbi tweeted that out, and Facebook realized they were proving his point, and reversed it. It was “just a bug” said a Facebook executive, unconvincingly. Click to enlarge (twice even) Illustration by mrmooremedia.com Matt Taibbi, Racket News Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex The citizen’s starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel Until World War II, America had no permanent arms manufacturing industry. Now it did, and this new sector, Eisenhower said, was building up around itself a cultural, financial, and political support system accruing enormous power. This “conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience,” he said, adding: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power […] 6.9 out of 10 based on 22 ratings |
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