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Wishing everyone all the best for the new year. Sadly due to new anti free speech laws some topics are going to be difficult to discuss here. I will get legal advice but on the meantime please assume that some topics are radioactive. Sorry. Moderation may be heavy and slow. Past unthreadeds have been temporarily made private until more information makes the policy clear. 9.8 out of 10 based on 83 ratings By Jo Nova No wonder the climate experts are not that interested in the historic data. You might think that if the world was going to hell in a handbasket, that climate scientists would want to get all the data they could and pore all over it carefully. Kenneth Richard at NoTricksZone has found a study of 60 million temperature readings. It shows the world was warming faster in the first half of the 20th century even though there was 8 times less man-made CO2 around. Man-made CO2 (black) can apparently cause big warming, big cooling, or anything it wants (orange). You can’t look at the graph above and say: CO2 is Earth’s control knob. And the table lays out the trends, and the cumulative CO2 emissions. It’s the simplest thing, and all the old data was there all along. Anyone could have done most of this in 1995, and saved us from wasting a few trillion dollars. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5395197 Critics will counter that these temperatures are only on land, and mostly in Europe and the United States. However, it’s a global emergency you know and this is the best data we have. Shouldn’t the experts, at least, […] December 31st, 2025 | Tags: Global Temperatures, Human Emissions of CO2 | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | | Image by Nikolett Emmert from Pixabay By Jo Nova Remember how biodegradable plastic was going to make the world a healthier place? It would save us all from the horrible plastic landfill that lasts 1000 years, and it would protect the dolphins. Well, let’s just hope the dolphins don’t eat the bags. Despite the rush to put biodegradable bags in every shopping centre, no one had bothered to study whether it had an effect on our health, and we still don’t know, but we can say that the mice on that compost heap with these biodegradable bags will be more likely to have diabetes, smaller ovaries, and liver damage. Degradable plastic affected their gut flora. The authors say: “Prolonged exposure to environmentally relevant doses of Starch-based microplastics can have widespread health effects.” How many native mice will die that could have been saved, and do the Greens care? This study came out in April: Mouse study suggests that starch-based microplastics may harm health Victoria Atkinson, c&en While many studies have examined the health implications of ingesting petroleum-derived microplastics, none have looked at the long-term health effects on a living organism ingesting starch-based […] By Jo Nova History books will be written about this week. “This is not good” says Elon Musk. This week the world woke up to realize that silver is a critical mineral for the high tech, AI, solar panels, and renewables. In four days time, China, which supplies more than half of the processed silver on Earth, effectively blocks their exports of silver. Meanwhile it turns out JP Morgan, which has been aggressively shorting the silver market for 15 years — was accumulating it all along. The entire COMEX silver market in New York has 30 million ounces of silver that is ‘immediately deliverable’. But JP Morgan is widely reported to control or custody up to ~700–800 million ounces of silver across vaulting, ETFs and proprietary holdings. It is de facto, the US strategic reserve, but controlled by a private bank, not by the Treasury. The phase change is in progress. I’m not trying to cover all the details, just to let people know that something very big is unfolding. Kitco Silver Price The largest single use of silver has become “industrial applications”: Silver, it turns out, is the best electrical and thermal conductor of all the […] December 29th, 2025 | Tags: Fiat Currency, Gold, Silver | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Image by Vilius Kukanauskas from Pixabay By Jo Nova It’s a cult science To the devotee, CO2 is the magical control knob of global weather. So a team at UC-Riverside wondered why, 600 million years ago, when CO2 was extremely high, Earth ended up frozen over in a Snowball Earth horror show. I mean, how could that be when CO2 ‘boils the oceans’? Normal people would say this shows CO2 is irrelevant — but the cult scientists went hunting with their broken computer models until they found “a new feedback” excuse that can explain this puzzling anomaly. In their new vision, CO2 warms the world, but under the right conditions, it sets off a ghastly negative spiral where more warming causes more phytoplankton, which suck the CO2 out of the sky in a feeding frenzy and then sink and die at the bottom of the ocean, taking the CO2 down with them. As the CO2 drains out of the sky, we lose its warming glow, and the world sinks into a frozen oblivion. Though unlike actual scientific advancements it doesn’t explain any of the other thousand anomalies, and is falsified by most of the last 500 million years […] December 24th, 2025 | Tags: Phytoplankton, Precambrian | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | For a few days new posts will appear below this one. Thank you to everyone and Merry Christmas! From Jo Nova Thanks to the wonderful souls who helps me cover the bills, so I can roast those who abuse science for profit and power. This year saw the Net Zero mythology take a mortal blow. Electricity prices hit a bleeding point just as the Trump hammer fell, and the insatiable AI race spooked the Blob, which suddenly realized there actually was a global energy contest and we are the losers. But despite these wins, the bankers that created the bubble took the profit and ran (for Prime Minister of Canada), the witchdoctor-scientists still give terrible advice, and billions are still being poured into glorified rain-dances. We still have to win the science war. The modern shaman tell us batteries will change the jet streams, save koalas, stop domestic violence and end wars. Then the ARC gives them another grant. And the ABC gives them free advertising. And we pay for all of it: the CSIRO-bad-science, the subsidies, and the ABC-BBC-CBC blob. Then there is the free speech war. The Ministry of Misinformation will return. The government wants to stop us […] By Jo Nova The EV bubble, or what’s left of it, popped this week After carmakers invested billions into EV designs, and the EU and UK vowed to ban internal combustion engines, it’s all come undone. Donald Trump pulled the pin on subsidies for EVs and eased the strict emissions rules that punished petrol and diesel cars. US sales of electric cars promptly fell 40% in November. Ford’s fell by nearly 60%. In response, Ford has killed off several electric cars, and will swallow a bitter pill of a $19.5 billion US dollar write down. That’s a lot of cars it will have to sell to make that money back. Gone is the fully electric F-150, the next generation electric truck, and any plan to make electric commercial vans. Instead Ford says it will shift into gas and hybrid models. General Motors laid off 3,300 workers at EV plants in the US. On the other side of the Pacific, shares of Korean battery makers “slumped across the board” this week after the news. The day after the Ford announcement the European Commission let the world know it would wind back the total ban on internal combustion engines which was […] By Jo Nova Despite the government plans to cover the country in wind turbines, the wind industry fell in a very big hole in 2025 Things in Renewable-Land must be worse than they seem. Giles Parkinson at RenewEconomy has been reduced to celebrating that *one* sole wind plant in Australia (one!) finally got a green light to proceed. This was “a first for 2025”. Ouch. Which is another way of saying that the economics of wind turbines are so awful, no one else in Australia wanted to build one this year. “The investment drought is breaking,” says CEO hails first Australia wind project to reach financial close in 2025 Giles Parkinson, RenewEconomy Auaetralia’s year-long wind energy investment drought has finally been broken after Tilt Renewables gave the green light to the 108 megawatt (MW) Waddi wind project in Western Australia. The Waddi wind farm, located in the state’s wheatbelt about 150 kms north of Perth, is the first wind project to reach financial close in 2025 in Australia, and will begin construction in 2026 and reach full operations in 2028. “This will be the first wind farm to reach a Final […] … By Jo Nova It’s all so unfair. They just wanted to save the world and be treated like heroes, but nothing is working out. The CSIRO has suddenly stepped back from promises of a Green Utopia. Only last week the AEMO (which manage the grid) admitted we’d need to keep coal plants running ’til 2049. Now, in a double shock, the CSIRO says we won’t reach a 100% renewables grid, because eliminating the last 10% of emissions is too expensive. Don’t miss what a huge backflip this is: — Suddenly, the CSIRO experts are saying that fossil fuels are an essential part of the Australian grid, in order to reduce costs. — Suddenly gas is not just a short bridging fuel to get us to the land of pure renewables. — Just like that, Net Zero Electricity is dead. If the land of the baking sun and roaring forties can’t make it work, who can? They don’t specify what the last 10% of non-renewable energy is, but without nuclear power, it has to be fossil fuels, doesn’t it? They just can’t bring themselves to say “10% fossil fuels”. Holy green electron! If only they could have […] December 17th, 2025 | Tags: CSIRO, Gas, Renewable Energy | Category: Australia, Fossil Fuels, Grids, Renewable | Print This Post | | 9.3 out of 10 based on 12 ratings By Jo Nova It’s a High-Voltage Wealth Transfer Disguised as Climate Policy The big new “cheaper battery scheme” was so badly designed it accidentally burned through $2.3 billion in just 6 months. We could have built two new gas plants… instead we blessed a few wealthy homes with batteries bigger than they can use, which will probably sit around doing nothing most of the time. The scheme is so bad, the government has already promised to add another $5b to the pyre. And since most homeowners are not opting to share their battery in a virtual power plant with the voracious retailers, this extra battery power will probably just sit there unused in homes around the country, hopefully not catching fire too often. It’s just another Soviet-style failure of communist midwits. The government keeps bragging about the rampant success of the program but it is a globalist lemon from end to end. The Cheaper Battery Scheme was supposed to save homeowners $4,000 on a new 10kWh home battery, but the rebate was offered “per kilowatt hour” not per battery. (Does Chris Bowen does even know what a kilowatt hour is?). The design meant solar installers had every incentive to […] 8.3 out of 10 based on 16 ratings 8.4 out of 10 based on 35 ratings 8.2 out of 10 based on 28 ratings By Jo Nova If man made CO2 emissions have any effect at all on extinctions — it stops them happening New research looked at 500 years worth of extinctions and concludes that species loss peaked about a century ago. Far from the rate accelerating as we pour carbon dioxide into the sky, fewer species are disappearing now than forty or fifty years ago. Kristen Saban and John Wiens considered data on as many as two million species. They specifically analyzed some 912 plants and animals that became extinct in the last 500 years. Many of the doom and gloom forecasts took extinction rates from long ago and extrapolated them mindlessly forward, as climate modelers are want to do. Extinction rates have slowed across many plant and animal groups, study shows EurekaAlert “To our surprise, past extinctions are weak and unreliable predictors of the current risk that any given group of animals or plants is facing,” said lead author Saban, who recently graduated from the U of A and is currently a doctoral student at Harvard University. Humans have wiped out species, but mostly by bringing in rats, pigs and goats to isolated islands: December 13th, 2025 | Tags: Biodiversity, Biology, Evidence, Extinction | Category: Global Warming | 9.1 out of 10 based on 14 ratings 8.8 out of 10 based on 21 ratings …. By Jo Nova It was never about The Science And so we find that the global consensus quietly dispersed, there were no press releases, no ceremonies, just the dawning realization that nearly everyone had left the party without saying goodbye. And they didn’t wait for the UN to say “the science” was fine. The herd is on the move regardless… One of the top majordomos at BHP delivers the bad news to Anthony Albanese. Everywhere on Earth is more attractive to a miner than Australia is. The world has changed, and everyone wants cheap energy, critical minerals, and lower taxes and other countries are giving it to them. Even Canada (ferrgoodnesssake!) is “walking back policies that the country can’t afford”. While Australia is the last nation on Earth steaming ahead to Renewable-nirvana. Brandon Craig specifically mentions problems with climate targets, competitively priced energy, and Net Zero. In the nicest possible way he’s telling our PM that his Net Zero plan is a dog. Mining giant’s rising star Brandon Craig warns even green policy stalwarts like Canada are moving to protect their economies By Brad Thompson, The Australian BHP rising star Brandon Craig has […] By Jo Nova Panic-stations in Renewable Utopia Even the AEMO, our green grid operators, have realized Australia is not ready to shut down the last coal plants by 2037 which was the plan up until five minutes ago. Things must be desperate. After 20 years of telling us how wind power was absolutely, definitely cheaper — for the first time, an official admitted the blasphemy — “wind is becoming too expensive”. Now they tell us. Reality for ALP as coal will be needed until 2049, says AEMO By Colin Packham and Richard Ferguson, The Australian Coal will be needed to stabilise the energy grid until 2049 under an extraordinary 12-year extension of the fossil fuel that threatens Labor’s net-zero target, as the green-energy revolution leads to a 100 per cent explosion in power transmission costs. In a 115-page document that mentions “net zero” just once, the Australian Energy Market Operator has warned that wind is increasingly becoming too expensive and there is a risk the nation is overbuilding transmission lines through rural and regional Australia. So, “Net Zero” has vanished from the pages, and what appears in its place is a 100% explosion in transmission […] December 10th, 2025 | Tags: AEMO, Coal, Renewable Energy | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Europe is starting to drill for oil and gas again Europe has always been the most pious climate ideologues, but there is a growing realization that they need their own supplies of oil and gas. Greece and the UK are reopening offshore oil and gas platforms and Italy is thinking about it. Australia looks set to be the last place on Earth where people are still playing climate-vanity games. Last month Greece issued its first gas exploration license in 40 years. The UK loosened its ban on new exploration in the North Sea and the Freech Energie Giant said it would spend $6b USD to buy 50% stakes in natural gas fired plants across Europe. Meanwhile Germany, the home of thousands of wind turbines, is building 10 GW of gas powered plants. Even the New York Times admits Europe is taking an increasingly pragmatic approach to energy and climate change: By Stanley Reed: The world has changed since the Paris agreement was adopted decade ago with ambitious goals to tackle climate change. It has become increasingly apparent that the agreement’s targets to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions […] |
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