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8.3 out of 10 based on 22 ratings By Jo Nova How many solar panels does it take to stop an arsonist? For two weeks the global media circus has been blaming climate change for the fires in Greece. But finally, belatedly we find out it’s arson (again) and not because Europe doesn’t have enough solar panels yet. The way the Guardian reports this, it’s as if arsonists hit Greece every year, but this year was different because of “climate change.” So if your civilization has thrill-seekers running amok, laying waste to land and property, the problem is not law and order, unemployment, or a sense of community, it’s “coal fired power plants”. Can we stop calling them wildfires when they are synthetic? Thanks to NetZeroWatch Most fires in Greece were started ‘by human hand’, government says Helena Smith in The Guardian Most of the 667 fires that have erupted across Greece in recent weeks were started “by human hand”, the country’s senior climate crisis official has said. Kikilias said that, in certain places, blazes had broken out at numerous points in close proximity at the same time, suggesting the involvement of arsonists intent on spreading fires further. Arsonists are […] 8.9 out of 10 based on 20 ratings
By Jo Nova How to hide $100b storage, transmission lines, battery costs in a dodgy accounting trick The cost for our whole national $100 billion dollar energy transition apparently rests on a CSIRO report that assumes we’ve already spent the infrastructure money “therefore” future costs after 2030 are almost nothing. It’s like a Nigerian email scam… except that it has fooled our Minister for Energy. You have been selected to win a new national electricity grid, just give us your economy… Chris Bowen, said Minister, thinks wind and solar will reduce the cost of electricity, despite them doing the opposite so far. The CSIRO GenCost report says that renewables are cheap if we pretend we have already spent the money on the transmissions lines, the pumped storage, the “firming” of the grid. It’s like a used car salesman that says the second hand electric car will be cheap to run while hiding the twenty grand you have to spend on a new battery before it can move out the door… There is a circular reasoning here that says we assume it’s worth spending bezillions now because renewables will be cheap after we have spent bezillions. […] July 28th, 2023 | Tags: CSIRO, Electricity Cost, Electricity Grids, Renewable Energy | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | | 8.6 out of 10 based on 20 ratings By Jo Nova This study could have been done two years ago… Most of the victims had no idea they were affected and wouldn’t have gone to a doctor to get a blood test. The new study shows the power of active surveillance for vaccine related injuries. The incidence of vaccine-induced myocardial injury (or heart damage) was estimated from hospitalization data to be 0.0035%. But a new trial which tested everyone who got an mRNA vaccine estimates it’s a thousand times higher or nearly 3%, and possibly much more common in young women than we thought. As John Campbell says, “it’s off the scale risk in heathcare”. “I would have run a mile”. “The only way you’d take this kind of risk in heathcare is if you were avoiding certain death. It’s complete madness”. Campbell argues that from now on everyone being offered an injection should be warned that one study showed as many as 1 in 35 people got vaccine associated myocardial injury. Otherwise it’s not informed consent. On the plus side, they told all the people with abnormally high scores not to do strenuous exercise which could put them at risk of a life-threatening arrhythmia. And the cases […] 9.1 out of 10 based on 13 ratings By Jo Nova Will EV’s cause more damage to the environment? A freighter with nearly 3,000 cars on board is burning off the Netherlands. The Coastguard is working hard to try to stop the freighter sinking in a delicate environmental area. Only 25 cars are EV’s on a burning ship of 2,857 cars. No one is sure what started the fire, but a coastguard spokesperson told Reuters “it began near an electric car”. Firefighters estimate it may burn for days. Even if it didn’t start in an EV, the EV’s on board change the nature of the battle. The fire spread so fast sadly one crew member was killed. Seven others leapt overboard and were rescued from the ocean. The ship carried a crew of 23. UPDATE: As commenter James Murphy suggests — maybe they need to be transported like explosives can be – on the main deck, in a container that can be dumped overboard under its own weight. Just pull a pin or 2… more or less. I’m thinking “ejection seats” for EV’s? Just 25 EV’s among 3,000 cars A freighter carrying nearly 3,000 cars catches fire in the North Sea and […] July 27th, 2023 | Tags: Electric Cars (EV), Fires, Shipping | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.6 out of 10 based on 14 ratings By Jo Nova Medieval “climate change” was filled with heatwaves, droughts, and crop failures One thousand years ago, “rivers ran dry under the protracted heat, the fish were left dry in heaps and putrefied in a few hours.” Men and animals venturing in the sun in the summer of 1022 fell down dying.” It was so hot in 1132 that the rivers ran dry and “the ground was baked to the hardness of stone”. Around 1200 at the Battle of Bela “there were more victims made by the sun than by weapons”. In 1303 and 1304, the Seine, the Loire, the Rhine, and the Danube could all be crossed with dry feet, and they dried up again in 1538-1541. In 1393 and 1394 the crops were “scorched up” and “great numbers of animals fell dead”. In 1625 in Scotland, it was so hot “meat could be cooked merely by exposing it to the Sun.” And so it goes — history that was known in the 1800’s appears to be disappearing, leaving us with a generation of snowflakes who think they are the only humans who ever faced hot weather. They with their air-conditioned bedrooms, mobile phones and filtered water. […] July 26th, 2023 | Tags: Europe, Heatwaves, Medieval Warm Period | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 9.7 out of 10 based on 18 ratings By Jo Nova UK surprise byelection “shows why conservatives must stand against NetZero” The Telegraph UK Suddenly conservative Cabinet Ministers, who formerly cheered on green policies are telling Rishi Sunak, the British PM, to back off a bit on Net Zero. This phase shift is so deep, even the leader of the Labor Opposition is warning his Labor counterpart Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London to “reflect” on his expansion of the ULEZ car tax zone to outer London. ULEZ is the Ultra Low Emission Zone, where a tax of £12.50 a day applies to high emission cars. Naturally, this hurts poor people with old cars living in outer suburbs much more than the inner city cafe latte set who can afford an EV and luxury religions. The key point, perversely, is that Conservatives managed to barely hold onto Boris Johnson’s old seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip. What apparently astonished the political masters was that the campaign to protect car drivers from the Mayor of London’s NetZero punishment was much more popular than they expected. The Uxbridge win plays against the backdrop of two whopping losses in other seats. The message is that salvation may yet arrive […] July 25th, 2023 | Tags: Australian Politics, UK, ULEZ (Ultra low emission zone) | Category: Global Warming, Politics, UK | Print This Post | | 9.6 out of 10 based on 10 ratings By Jo Nova What do you do when not enough people die to suit your religion? Distort the axis and hope no one notices. Welcome to government-science, where one of top journals in the world uses graphic design tricks for political convenience. In this graph from the paper, 10 excess deaths from the heat looks “bigger” than 50 excess deaths from cold. Isn’t the whole point of a graph so we can compare the bars “at a glance”? Björn Lomborg corrected this with chart on right. Doesn’t that tell a different story? Thanks to Patrick Moore @EcoSenseNow: The journal “Lancet” published the chart on left with unequal X-Axis* to downplay fact that cold causes 10X more deaths than heat in Europe. …This is disgraceful for a supposedly scientific journal. Click to enlarge Björn Lomborg‘s version shows us exactly how important heat deaths are. It’s no small thing. The news outlets are filled with heatwave porn trying to scare people about normal weather, while politicians try to justify spending billions to “cool” the world. These graphs hide the crime — increasing the cost of energy will kill far more than mythical cooling could ever save. […] July 24th, 2023 | Tags: Peer Review, Temperature (Effect on Mortality) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 7.3 out of 10 based on 24 ratings 8.3 out of 10 based on 23 ratings …. By Jo Nova Soon we may have hackable transmitters and receivers on every roof… When storms hit Adelaide last November the first thing the AEMO did was ask people to switch off their own solar panels so they didn’t swamp and crash the fragile wounded grid. Some 400MW of rooftop PV was also remotely shut down through the combination of smart inverters and voltage controls. Imagine if a foreign power could launch a cyber attack — one that switched a large energy source on or off at the wrong moment? Last year “a hacker gained access to PV systems in the Netherlands that were operated via a monitoring tool from China’s Solarman“. That meant a Dutch government agency was suddenly called on to investigate and report on the risks. According to PV magazine: “The hacker was able to view the personal data of Dutch customers, create new customers and delete existing users,” reported Tweakers. “He was also able to find out how much electricity customers’ solar panels generate via GPS coordinates, and download, adjust and upload inverter firmware.” In May this year a report by the Dutch National Digital Infrastructure Inspectorate (RDI) found that many […] 8.6 out of 10 based on 15 ratings Late night road protestor pouring concrete in a former bollard-hole | Youtube By Jo Nova Build Back Worse suffers a set-back It’s hard to believe someone thought that adding artificial blockages to roads would free people from their vehicle-addiction. As if making car trips artificially long, circuitous and inconvenient would teach people to love walking? It’s part of the 15 minute city plan, where everything was supposed to be within a heavenly short walk from home, so we could give up cars, save the planet, change the atmosphere and get fit too. But the Deplorables didn’t like it. The idea of a Low Traffic Network (LTN) sounded so apple-pie. Everyone wants fewer cars on the road. So when pollsters asked deliberately ambiguous questions, people would say “yes” they liked the idea. But living with LTN’s wasn’t much fun when it turned out it was their car the overlords wanted to get rid of. And so the protests and petitions began. Under the cover of darkness, people set bollards on fire, attacked them with chainsaws, and even poured concrete in the anchor holes so it was harder to replace them. But what really seems to have got the attention […] July 21st, 2023 | Tags: 15 Minute Cities, Cars, UK, ULEZ (Ultra low emission zone) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | |
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