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By Jo Nova Does the planet matter or doesn’t it? Today the headlines read “As the world sizzles, China says it will deal with climate its own way“, as if it made sense that the planet could be burning up and the largest emitter was clearly steaming ahead anyway. But no one got too upset in the Washington Post, or anywhere else either. From a carbon-believer’s point of view this should be the main game, the big crisis, the drama to launch a thousand protests and fund-raisers. But there are no encampments outside the Chinese embassies, no one is calling for boycotts on Chinese goods “until they act”, and no people are gluing themselves to wharves to stop “the boats of doom” loading and unloading. China’s intentions are pretty clear: China’s output of carbon dioxide is set to reach a new record high in 2023. It grew 4 percent in the first quarter this year alone. Apparently China is committed to deadlines but not to a path, or a tempo, or a public plan, or any kind of transparency: China remained “unwaveringly” committed to reaching its peak in carbon emissions before 2030 and becoming […] 8.1 out of 10 based on 17 ratings By Jo Nova Is the Commonwealth Games just another target of the Culture Wars? The Commonwealth is the largest cultural union of nations across the globe. It includes one third of the world’s population in a group of 56 nations with 2.4 billion people. It could also be the largest trading block in the world, if only member nations wanted it to be that way. And who wouldn’t — well, obviously the EU and the Chinese Communist Party wouldn’t. For them, The Commonwealth is a threat, a club they can’t control, a sleeping giant. It’s kind of an inverse “Belt and Road” — but one that spread democracy and human rights. Maybe its nothing, but Dan Andrews (premier of Victoria) who signed up to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, then abruptly sank it, also once signed the state up for the Belt and Road program, which the Federal government blocked. So we have to ask — who benefits from the shock announcement to cancel the Commonwealth Games? Why suddenly was an athletic carnival not worth doing for anything less than $7 billion dollars? As The Australian points out, The Gold Coast hosted the Games in 2018 for $1.8 […] July 19th, 2023 | Tags: Commonwealth, Free Markets, Free Speech | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | | 8.5 out of 10 based on 19 ratings By Jo Nova Germany is a lesson for the rest of the world Few countries have placed a bigger bet on “renewables” than Germany, which installed some 28,443 wind turbines, and at its peak in 2016, employed 160,000 people just in the wind industry. But the effect on the rest of the economy is devastating. The Energiewende Green program was estimated to have cost €520 billion plus and after 20 years of subsidies and effort, reduced fossil fuel use from 84% of primary energy “all the way” down to 78%. And those presumably were the easy wins. The cost of expensive electricity vandalizes the rest of the economy. The Green policy gamble may change Germany forever. The former economic powerhouse of Europe is coming undone — losing iconic parts to the US and Asia. BASF — the German historic giant founded in 1865, is the largest chemical producer in the world. In 1913 it bought the new Haber Bosch process that creates ammonia for fertilizer, and thus changed the world — making billions of lives possible. But now, BASF is shifting out of Germany — spending $10 billion on a new plant in China. Then there is Linde, an industrial […] July 18th, 2023 | Tags: Germany, Renewable Energy | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.6 out of 10 based on 21 ratings By Thomas K By Jo Nova Despite twenty years of media stories telling us how every rain-bomb was “climate change” a new satellite study of rainfall suggests that in the last 20 years the intensity of rainfall has mysteriously declined a little in most places. This is despite predictions it would increase, and CO2 itself rising by 41ppm globally during the same period. In terms of total emissions released by humans since the stone age, it’s been a bonanza — in this 20 year period we emitted 38% of all the emissions we ever emitted. So humans put out 656,000 Mt of CO2 and there’s been either a decline or no trend at all in rainfall intensity. Is 38% of all human CO2 emissions enough of a test? The satellites cover all the Earth, including the oceans which the met bureau gauges don’t. Thanks to Kenneth Richards at NoTricksZone for finding this paper: New Study: 21st Century Precipitation Trends Have Become Less Intense Globally Hydrological processes were expected to intensify with warming. The opposite has happened. Per a new study, global precipitation intensity, measured in mm/hour per century, has exhibited flat (large precipitation systems) to declining (medium and […] 8.2 out of 10 based on 22 ratings 8.4 out of 10 based on 17 ratings By Jo Nova Don’t mention brown coal? Last quarter I reported that the Australian Energy Market Operators (AEMO) had strangely “forgotten” to list the brown coal prices in its quarterly report, despite it being the second largest energy source in our national electricity market. Other quarters, often they would include a graph comparing the average winning bids of all the major fuel types — a graph that surely is essential in these inflationary times where our electricity prices are setting record highs, rising by 25% this month, and we have a national debate on our energy crisis. In the next quarterly report the AEMO did list the average “winning bids” of brown coal but didn’t do the comparison graph, so I’ve done it for them. If only they had room in their 68 page report and $450 million dollar budget so Australians can see, at a glance, which fuel source provides the cheapest wholesale generation by far, every quarter, all the time? Despite all the inflation, the war, and the pandemic, brown coal generators are still making electricity for 3c a KWh. Shouldn’t Australians know that? Click to enlarge (Or download the larger JPG file) Compare that to […] July 15th, 2023 | Tags: AEMO, Coal, Electricity Cost, Lignite | Category: Australia, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming | Print This Post | | 9 out of 10 based on 21 ratings By Jo Nova Across 30 countries heatwaves kill 20,000 people in European cities every year (and cold kills 200,000 but nevermind.) The new paper by Pierre Masselot et al, is another round of medical investigation showing cold is somewhere between six and twenty times as deadly as heat is. Other studies looked at various countries, or specific regions. This study looked at cities across the whole of Europe. It was pretty big, covering 854 cities of 50,000 or more, and about 40% of the European population. They picked cities because they are “particularly affected by environmental stressors and potential impacts of climate change”. So they’re admitting they looked at the worst possible living conditions for heat deaths. Obviously cities will be hotter than farms and ski resorts — so if heat deaths were a problem, this study would show it, except it didn’t. The Lancet Nobody mention coal, oil or gas… Mysteriously Northern people in frigid climates were strangely “adaptable” to the cold compared to people in Eastern Europe. What could it be that helps people in Scandinavia deal with the cold so much better than people in Bulgaria? Northern countries showed the lowest risks […] July 14th, 2023 | Tags: Temperature (Effect on Mortality) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 9.1 out of 10 based on 19 ratings By Jo Nova It’s just another climate denier with a Nobel Prize in Physics… John Clauser, Nobel Prize winner. Dr John F Clauser of quantum entanglement fame, leaves no doubt about his thoughts: “…climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience”. Despite that, the ABC and BBC types won’t pick up the phone to ask Dr John F Clauser why a man with his remarkable reputation would risk looking like an idiot, and speaking up as a climate skeptic. It’s not that they are afraid he might bore the audience or sound like a kook. They won’t ask him because they’re afraid he’ll have a good answer. How much damage would it do to the cause if the audience finds out that one of the highest ranking scientists in the world disagrees with the mantra? It would break that sacred spell. Suddenly, the unwashed masses will realize “there is a debate”, and that all the times they were told “the debate was over”, they were being lied too. The same team that tells us that we must “listen to the experts”, won’t listen to any experts they don’t like. They rave about “UN Experts” that […] July 13th, 2023 | Tags: ABC, BBC, Consensus, Nobel Prize Winning Skeptics | Category: Global Warming, Lies-by-Omission, Media-matters, Psy-Ops | Print This Post | | 8.9 out of 10 based on 17 ratings By Jo Nova Fossil Fuels destroy skyscrapers now The storms of 2,100 have gone underground and are wrecking your city as we speak. Climate Change has is weakening the foundations, shifting the ground underneath you. If you don’t install enough solar panels, soon buildings will fall on your head. Horror movie at 8pm. News headline for breakfast. What’s the difference? This is the headline tonight in Scientific American, and many other media outlets: Underground Climate Change Is Weakening Buildings in Slow Motion Allison Parshall, Scientific American, July 11th 2023 The headline makes no sense at all unless you view it through the lens of the climate cult. It’s as if the words “climate change” have become a substitute for the word “warming”. This story doesn’t mention carbon emissions, and doesn’t talk about “the climate” either. It’s just a click-bait headline about the urban heat island effect and how apparently it is causing subsidence or shifting which may lead to cracks in buildings. We could write it off as the daft result of thirty years of propaganda on one university press team, except that it’s appearing simultaneously tonight in Scientific American, Daily Mail, Metro UK, SciTech Daily, andScienceAlert. […] July 12th, 2023 | Tags: Cult science, Hyperbole, Junk Science | Category: Global Warming, Junk Science | Print This Post | | 8.6 out of 10 based on 22 ratings By Jo Nova Apparently some New Zealand officials are toying with a whole new science curriculum which sounds like a return to the stone age. All the hard stuff about electromagnetism, elements, mass, motion, and molecular bonding has been replaced with UN Agenda 21 items like climate change and biodiversity. Who needs to know the periodic table when you can learn the new religion of “Climate Change”? Knowing actual physics and chemistry will just hold you back in your drive to understand the intersectional suffering of the oppressed swamp antechinus. NZ Teachers Shocked Physics, Chemistry, Biology Missing From New Science Curriculum By Rebecca Zhu, Epoch Times New Zealand science teachers have raised alarm over an early draft science curriculum, which lacks any mention of physics, chemistry, and biology. Mr. Johnston [senior fellow of the New Zealand Initiative think tank] warned that if this draft went through, high school graduates wanting to pursue studies in physical sciences or engineering would need to be taught from scratch by their university. Who is Mr Johnston kidding? As if universities will fight for the physical sciences… they didn’t even fight for “male and female”. Academics are driving this […] July 10th, 2023 | Tags: Education, New Zealand, Schools and Teaching, Universities | Category: Academia, Big-Government, Global Warming, School | Print This Post | | 8.6 out of 10 based on 20 ratings |
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