By Jo Nova
The handy all-purpose smoke bomb for any occasion is “climate change”
Food prices are rising because we’ve mismanaged the economy and screwed up our energy supplies while we played doctor to the clouds. As sure as night follows day, we stopped digging for coal and oil and now it costs more to transport, process, refrigerate, package and store food. But don’t be fooled, the bigger underlying cause that the Blob doesn’t want you to notice is money.
The inflation starts with the money supply. If we gave everyone a million dollars, the thing we most want would suddenly cost a million dollars more.
As long as The Blob can borrow money into existence they can fund their friends and promise free homes and eternal youth to the voting massess. And the borrowers get to spend the money first, before the price rises.
So since 2008, all the US dollars ever created going back to World War I, have been multiplied five fold. This is the money-base data today from the US St Louis Federal Reserve.
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Climate change (code for CO2) causes crops to grow and greenery to get greener. So articles like The Times magazine one at the top are just there to distract people.
This is pure psychological manipulation — seeding the idea that prices are going up and that the solution is to pump your money into our renewable schemes.
How Climate Change is Making Your Life More Expensive
The Times
If you feel like things have been getting more expensive, you’re not imagining it. The average American household spent $15,400 more for basic necessities in 2025 than it did in 2019, according to research from the Common Sense Institute, a non-partisan research organization. That’s across a number of spending categories. On average, grocery costs increased 25.1%, while shelter and utilities costs increased 33.9%.
There’s a number of explanations for the surge in prices—from pandemic induced supply chain issues, to tariffs, to wars in Ukraine and Iran.
And suggestively post opinion polls….
Yet a significant number of Americans are also pointing to another factor: climate change. In a study released this week by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, 67% of American voters said they think global warming is affecting the cost of living in the United States, while 64% said it is affecting their own cost of living, pointing to increasing costs of home utility bills, groceries, and home insurance, among other things.
The Blob depends on the fiat currency trick to fund their election promises, so they can buy the votes with the wealth they stole from your own purchasing power.
The fiat currency is the engine that feeds greed and corruption.
“As long as The Blob can borrow money into existence”
Like I said.
Time Bandits.
Turn the unrealized productivity of the unborn into realized cash today to fill the accounts of well placed.
The not well placed get a free vaccine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh17LbB8pU8
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Carbon [sic] causes inflation?
Was that part of the original ‘settled science’?
My, how green & luscious those veges look, mmm.
Wholly chlorophyll, Batman!
Who’d buy a Fiat anyway, they’re rubbish. 🇮🇹
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FIAT – Fix It Again Tony.
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@simmoneshah You can tell her directly what you think of her article. I did. I used to think disseminating information on Facebook amongst friends and associates was making a difference. I’m not so sure anymore. Now I go to the source.
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Temperature increases force plants transpire at a higher rate, pushing the plant to close stomata, and thereby cut photosynthesis. Higher temps also encourage parasitic attacks on plants. Higher CO2 changes metabolite concentrations also here
While simplistic assumptions have a place, science is not on of those places
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… and yet crop yields continue to grow year-after-year despite higher temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels. Ditto for forest growth and global greening in general. Most plants on earth evolved at much higher temperatures and CO2 levels than today. They are thriving. And so are the fauna who feed off those plants, and the carnivores who feed on the herbivores eating those plants. Global food chains are in better shape than they have been in millennia.
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So, Peter,
How do you explain NASA’s findings:
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/co2-is-making-earth-greenerfor-now/
that, seemingly in spite of themselves, they have to report that:
“CO2 is making Earth greener,” that in fact, “a rising atmospheric concentration has added 5% to global green leaf area over the past three decades”. For the latter quote I am quoting the writer at:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/15/indias-record-crops-reject-food-warming-alarmism/
You might be tempted to say that this author “would say that, wouldn’t he?”, but, in the context of that article, if plants are so stressed by rising temperatures, as you seem to claim, how do you explain the year-on-year record crop yields in India for the last 5 years? Remember, Peter, India is in the tropics, so one would expect that if there are damaging impacts on plants from rising temperatures, then surely it would be evident in that nation?
Paul Miskelly
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Why then do horticulturalists pump CO2 into greenhouses to increase plant yield?
https://caloxinc.com/blog/how-greenhouses-can-use-co2-carbon-dioxide-increase-yields/
If it works in the microcosm, surely it also works in the macrocosm.
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That would be true if we could control every aspect of the environment like we can in the greenhouse.
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That Times writer lives in her own stupid fantasy world, judging by the recent fantasy stories on her list.
But I’m sure there are enough lefty eco loons out there to lap it up.
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Jo and other contributors pass on comments from articles from eg.The Times, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald or the Melbourne Age. Or when they’ve listened to / watched the ABC. My first reaction is thank goodness it’s them and not me and who the hell reads these papers anyway.
Then I walked into my local coffee shop the other day and there was a customer (who looked quite normal) reading the Age from front to back. So, similiarly there must be still people in the UK who read the Times everyday. Frightening.
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‘Frightening.’
Its not that bad, browsing can be amusing. They come up with talking points, which gives us a chance to do a critique here.
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I was going to move to Tuvalu to escape all of this inflation and bad news, —–until. Oh dear where else can I go to avoid all these problems
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/australias-doomed-neighbour-the-tiny-nation-set-to-vanish-by-2050/?campaignType=external&campaignChannel=syndication&campaignName=ncacont&campaignContent=&campaignSource=newscomau&campaignPlacement=realestatemodule
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They’re obviously looking more Australian taxpayer handouts.
I’ve noticed in the past that their sea levels rise when anticipation of taxpayer funds rise!! Originally their island was supposed to disappear about 10 years ago. I guess taxpayer handouts are keeping them afloat. It is however time to test that theory!!
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Its always worth knowing where the data for this “opinion poll” comes from:
https://climatecommunication.gmu.edu/all/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-politics-and-policy-spring-2026/
But it is even better to know the bias of the organisation running this “opinion poll”. What is the George Mason Centre for Climate Change Communication?
https://climatecommunication.gmu.edu/what-we-do/
This mob believes climate change:
Is real!
Is caused by humans!
Experts agree!
Its bad!
Others care!
There’s hope!
Look at some of the other wacky responses in this report:
58% of registered voters would prefer to vote for a candidate for public office who supports action on global warming.
49% of registered voters think global warming should be a high or very high priority for the
president and Congress.
77% of registered voters oppose ordering all federal agencies (such as NASA, NOAA, and the EPA) to stop doing research on global warming.
77% of registered voters oppose ordering all federal agencies to stop providing information about global warming to the public.
And yes, those last two are entirely self-serving! So perhaps this report really bears no relationship to a properly run “opinion poll”?
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Notice, as well, they get the Triple-C in their name (CCC) which, if budding young chemistry students were taught the basics of the Periodic Table, they’d easily see the number 666, and no, it doesn’t spell ‘Trump’, it’s simply anti-human.
Don’t quote me, but I may have read somewhere recently that Australia’s latest climate refugee from New Zealand, ex-PM Jacinda of the Ardern, was invited onto the board of the Mason think-tank thingy: she’s so popular [overseas] she’s been honoured with degrees and memberships from all quarters as her bs (oopsala, spellcheck: wisdom) is highly sought after.
Mocking them all is the least we can do.
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Quoth the Raven had an article up this week about the money supply, with Elon’s trillion being his jumping off point rather than climate change, but it’s the same problem regardless of which symptom you want to talk about.
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-elizabeth-warren
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Any time a research organization advertises being non-partisan, one knows immediately that they trade in viewpoint bias.
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“How Climate Change is Making Your Life More Expensive”?
Where is this Climate Change? Has it happened already?
After 40 years of Rapid Climate change, has my climate changed? In what way? The sea levels have not changed, the polar bears, penguins, Caribou, even the Great Barrier Reef are fine, the Millenium drought is over and the chickens have come home to roost. How can anyone push this barrow for so long and expect credibility?
When do we stop Snowy II?
Can we go back to coal power? Then we don’t need to pay forever to ‘transition’. It would probably be cheaper to change all the men to women and all the women to men. Now that would be a transition. And make as much sense.
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Same as COVID TdeF.
You often hear we suffered because of COVID. Or, business has not been the same since COVID. It wasn’t COVID that caused the problems, it was the Government actions vs COVID that caused the pain. Same as our old mate Climate Change. It’s not climate change that is affecting me, it’s all the government actions vs Climate change giving me grief.
Mostly every couple of weeks when I receive my electricity or power bill.
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I spoke with Jason about this on 4BC yesterday morning (Tuesday 16 June 2026). Hear that whistle in the distance? That’s the Pied Piper coming for his pay.
People are screaming about poor infrastructure, bad traffic… When the Nation is 1 $Trillion in debt, and Qld is 170 $Billion in the hole, there’s precious little money in the kitty. Yet people keep coming to South East Qld. What IS in the kitty gets spent on the worst problems. None of them are in Qld, so suck it up up things are going to get a whole lot worse. There is Sweet Felicity Arkwright to be done about it except to cut the size of Government and limit spending. Cope, Electorate. It’s your own stupid fault anyway.
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My goodness, didn’t the Americans elect Donald Trump? Didn’t the orange guy famously say ‘climate change is a hoax’? Why are we still hearing this fetishistic b/s? Slightly off-topic, I discovered a pro-Trump, highly partisan channel which is on both Y/T and Rumble, with decent A+ content called ‘Promethean Action’ which might be worth checking out if you haven’t already.
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Time magazine is a front for climate propaganda. For Australians, the real cause of life being more expensive is the Marxist Albanese government aided and abetted by ineffective opposition from the Coalition.
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