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By Jo Nova On Monday for Australia Day, don’t forget to March For Australia. 12:00 noon – 2pm January 26th. The globalist unaccountable Blob wants us to forget what makes The West great. They want to erase our heritage, our customs, our history, and even the names of places in the land we grew up in. The gradual character assassination of every early hero is not an accident. Their stories of success can be turned into woke-fairy tales to scare little children. When we become a lost people, apologizing for every tiny imperfection, we are easy to rule. But when we stand on the shoulders of the world’s greatest civilization we expect to be treated as equals. For we are the children of people who built a nation. And it’s a nation worth defending. March For Australia locations Monday Melbourne: Flinders St Station Sydney: Prince Alfred Park, Cleveland St Gold Coast: Macintosh Island Park, Surfers Paradise Adelaide: Wigley Reserve, Corner of Anzac Highway and Adelphi Terrace Perth: Wellington Square, Hill Street Entrance Canberra: Parliament House Lawns. Hobart: St David’s Park Davey St. Australia Day is a test. If we don’t celebrate it, they will take it away. Plus, we meet great people.
By Jo Nova The Biggest Banker in the world has flippedWay back in his 2021 annual CEO letter, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, wrote: “No issue ranks higher than climate change.” It will reshape global capital flows, he said, and declared “…anyone can see the impact of climate change in the natural disasters in California or Florida.” Now though, nevermind about global extinctions and flash floods. Fink just spoke at the Davos ski club for billionaires, and declared that we need “trillions of dollars” of investment for AI. Data centres, he said, are rapidly expanding — one technology company he spoke to said that “its data centres currently use about 5 gigawatts, but by 2030 it expects to need 30 gigawatts.” But like a true banker, he doesn’t see a backflip, he sees only investment opportunities — the world is short of power he says. (He doesn’t say that this is in large part because BlackRock leaned on companies and countries all over the world to abandon fossil fuels.) Fink helped create the energy shortage that he now calls an investment opportunity. BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world, controlling $10 Trillion dollars in assets, or five times Australia’s GDP. When that much money talks, everyone listens. Now Larry Fink throws wind and solar under the busHe’s matter-of-fact, with a straight face, almost like he never pushed intermittent generators: Fink: “At the same time, this represents a huge investment opportunity. The world is going to be short of power. And to supply these data centres, you cannot rely solely on intermittent sources like wind and solar. You need dispatchable power, because these data centres cannot simply turn on and off.” Larry Fink slides the bomb in after 45 mins 30 seconds: This man probably did more than any single person to pump up the Great Renewables Bubble that peaked in 2022. He presumably has taken his profits long before this speech — leaving mums and dads and pension funds holding the bag with investments in unreliable, expensive generators. Transcript of Larry Fink at the WEF: “AI is fundamentally a large-capitalisation business. At the moment, if you look at the S&P 500, the ten largest companies account for about 38% of the index. If AI develops the way many expect, and if you look at the scale of reinvestment these companies are already making, that share could rise to 50%. We may end up with an “S&P 10” and an “S&P 490”. That alone shows the power of what is coming. Keep reading → January 23rd, 2026 | Tags: Bankers, BlackRock | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming |  Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Humans used more coal in 2025 than at any point in human history.The International Energy Agency (IEA) solemnly announced that global coal demand reached another all time record high in 2025. “However, it is expected to decline by 2030 amid competition from other energy sources” they say, just like they say every year when coal hits a new record. The IEA are a fully paid up part of The Blob– their funding comes from taxpayers in rich nations — so their role is to manage the narrative on energy to keep that funding flowing. Every year that coal hits a record high, the IEA also projects that coal use will plateau or fall. Back in 2019, they said “Over the next five years, global coal demand is forecast to remain stable.” Which it didn’t. In 2020 they said “Coal’s partial recovery is set to fade after 2021”. And it didn’t do that either. In 2022 they said “Global coal demand is set to plateau through 2025”. Yet again, demand for coal keeps rising. Every year they do some version of the plateau graph (below) which includes their wish-list forecast of coal trending flat or down. This is this years version:  https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2025/executive-summary This fictitious faded out extension on the right (after 2026) distracts the eye from drawing a rising line. It feeds the expectation that coal use will start to decline soon, and hides the relentless rise in coal use in the last twenty years. No doubt China is happy if other countries don’t feel any urgency to ramp up their coal generators. And the UN is happy because they told us coal was a stranded asset for twenty years and they don’t want to look too stupid. And the renewables industry, and all the bureaucrats that feed in that trough, don’t want the taxpayers to know other countries are feeding on coal. It’s all part of the Psy-Op. The growth of renewables might be fast, but it’s not even quick enough to reduce the growth of coal use.
January 22nd, 2026 | Tags: Blob (The), Coal, IEA, Psy-Ops | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova The Zombie coal plant lives againEraring coal plant is Australia’s largest coal power station. Obviously it’s a polluting monstrosity that kills koalas and is more expensive than solar panels. It’s also old and yet, for some reason, when it was supposed to shut down in August last year, the government dished out nearly half a billion dollars to keep it running for another two years until 2027. Now, in a second round of baffling electrical fever, the NSW government has twisted the arm of Origin Energy to make sure they don’t shut the coal plant until 2029. All four coal units will be kept running. Eraring supplies nearly a quarter of the electricity used in our largest industrial state, but apparently the wonderland new renewables grid isn’t quite ready, even though it’s 2026 and we are supposed to be aiming for 82% unreliable energy by 2030. But cruelly, the renewables revolution hit a wall and the Snowy Hydro Scheme hit an unmodeled rock. Only three new wind farms have been built in Australia last year, and everyone hates the interconnector transmission lines. If the renewables grid was utterly failing, and the targets were all going to be missed, this is exactly what the early stages of a big backflip would look like. They can just keep extending the coal plants. Ministers say Eraring will be used less and less and exists only as “insurance”. Which is like buying a truck to sit on the lawn, just in case your bike, roller skates and e-scooter can’t get you to work. Origin Energy’s Eraring coal power station gets 2-year extensionBy Colin Packham, The Australian NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe said the extension will help keep power bills down. “My number one job is keeping the lights on and putting downward pressure on power prices. NSW is making real progress replacing ageing coal-fired power stations. Since the election, we have increased the amount of renewable energy capacity in operation by almost 70 per cent. That’s equivalent to Eraring’s capacity,” said Ms Sharpe. The longer lifespan would not impact Origin’s own emissions reduction targets and taxpayers will not at this stage be called upon to provide any financial support, underscoring the profitability of the coal power station near Lake Macquarie. Shares in Origin rose 2.6 per cent to $11.34 as the market cheered the prospect of additional returns from Eraring. Green groups are calling this a disaster. They believe that renewables are cheaper than coal, yet say that keeping an old coal plant going will “crowd out” cheaper investments — though they don’t explain why people will choose the coal…. The CEO of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, Jacqui Mumford, said “far from supporting the transition, Origin’s decision will crowd out investment in the clean, modern sources of generation we need to be switching to”. Meanwhile The Blob speaks its own language — this decision has obviously increased real “certainty”, but the Blob says it has been undermined. Johanna Bowyer of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis said extending Eraring “undermines certainty right when investors in new replacement generation need clarity” Just substitute the phrase “certainty” with “certain income”, or “subsidies” and it all makes sense. And do the same for “clarity” which is another Green word for “money”. Aurora Watch Current due to the X1.9 flare that went off early Monday morning Australia time. Glendale App reports the strongest ever substorm they have ever recorded hit Earth this morning 9am Eastern Australian time, sadly during daylight hours for us. Europeans got a roaring show, as are people in North America now. There may or may not be some action still running as darkness falls across Australia. It is cloudy in New Zealand, but they’ve probably seen too many auroras already… 🙂 See also SpaceWeatherLive and the Lake Superior live web cam. with some beautiful action in the last few hours.
From Melbourne:  https://x.com/AGretlich80048/status/2013587123677638762
 Phillippsburg Nuclear Power Plant by Lothar Neumann, Gernsbach [1] How fast was this backflip? How big was this mistake…Germany shut down its last three reactors in April 2023, but three years later, they’ve realized it was a terrible mistake and want to rebuild them or put small modular reactors “likely on the same sites”. After 66 years of operating nuclear power without any major accidents, the irony was that Germany shut down its nuclear industry mostly because other countries had accidents. But now they admit they need more electricity. This would be one of the biggest backdowns in the fake renewables “transition”. Germany is the third largest economy in the world, and Chancellor Merz said this openly at a business conference a few days ago, but the mass media have said nothing. The media groups that have reported it are niche outlets with names like Deseret News, TVPWorld, and American Thinker. Translations from the video below: Chancellor Merz “It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy. We are now undertaking the most expensive energy transition in the entire world. I know of no other country that makes things so difficult for its own industry.”
“To have acceptable market prices for energy production again, we would have to permanently subsidise energy prices from the federal budget,” Merz said, adding: “We can’t do this in the long run.”
“If you are going to do it, you should at least have left the last remaining nuclear power plant in Germany on the grid three years ago, so that you at least have the electricity generation capacity that we had up until then,” he said.
Abdulvehab Ejup reports on TRT World — the Turkish Public Broadcaster.
Germany once had 19 nuclear power plants, which provided more than a quarter of its electricity, but now they are bleeding industrial power, losing solar, wind power, EVs and now AI before it has barely started:
Germany, meanwhile, is watching the digital economy and the jobs that come with it flow to nations with cheaper, more reliable electricity. And Berlin’s solution seems to be if you can’t beat them, join them. Merz has dropped German opposition to nuclear energy in EU law, opening the door for German companies to invest in French small modular reactor projects.
Two years ago a study showed that if Germany just kept nuclear power, it could have saved $600b and cut emissions by 73%. If the Greens cared about emissions they would have been begging Germany to keep nuclear power. But it was never about “the science” was it?
Trump was right in 2018 when he told Germany they were on the wrong track, and they laughed at him..
REFERENCESOther outlets : The Brussels Signal, Deseret News, TVPWorld, The Brussels Signal, aa.com, and American Thinker. Related blog posts:
After 3 years without nuclear power, Germany is changing its mind. Why?h/t Bally in Q
By Jo Nova Don’t call these fossil fuel generators — they are baby hydrogen plants!Facing industrial death, Germany has finally decided it needs dispatchable reliable electricity. But they can’t announce that they suddenly need to build 10 gigawatts of fossil fueled gas power plants. It would be like admitting the sacred Energiewende had been a ghastly mistake that wasted billions of dollars on a reckless vanity quest to change the clouds. So instead, these new “power plants” with a focus on “gas-fired sites” must be convertible to run on hydrogen by 2045. Of course, they may never run on hydrogen, given that makes pipes brittle, leaks, and costs four times as much as natural gas, but it makes a good cover story. This is exactly what I would do if I wanted to hide a major backflip and pretend this was just a slight variation on the renewables theme. (Especially if I had no scruples). Note that the Reuters Blob-Media story (below) does not mention the words “fossil fuels” or “dispatchable” it just talks about the need to generate electricity over “a longer period of time”. The gas to hydrogen plant story is the PR cover and escape hatch from the Sacred Renewables Mission. It’s just another marker of how fast the renewable energy plan is coming undone… Germany, EU reach general agreement on power plant strategyBERLIN/FRANKFURT, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Germany said on Thursday it had reached an agreement with the European Commission on a plan to build new power stations, adding it would tender 12 gigawatts (GW) worth of capacity in 2026, with a focus on gas-fired sites.
This is a major step on Germany’s path to ensure security of supply in light of the country’s ongoing phase-out of coal-fired power capacity. “With the short-term tenders … we are also laying the foundation for a secure electricity supply in Germany in the future and thus for the competitiveness of our industry,” Economy Minister Katherina Reiche said.
Most of the new capacity, 10 GW, must be able to generate electricity over a longer period of time to ensure steady supply, Germany’s economy ministry said, adding that this included but was not limited to gas-fired power stations.
Wow — 10 GW of new power by 2031!?
The new power stations, which are expected to enter service in 2031, will be able to run on hydrogen by 2045 at the latest, in line with Germany’s goal of becoming climate neutral that year, the ministry said.
Obviously, there are no apologies, no honesty, and they will never admit they were wrong. Photo by Raimond Spekking of Power plant Burshtyn TES, Ukraine
By Jo Nova Coal is not and never was a stranded assetSuch is the demand for electricity, Donald Trump wants every reliable generator he can get. One coal plant in Colorado was a week away from closure on Dec 31, when Donald Trump pulled it back from the brink: Colorado’s coal plant closures and clean air policies go too far, Trump’s EPA says while rejecting plansIn December, President Donald Trump’s Department of Energy issued an emergency order demanding that Tri-State Generation’s Craig Unit 1 coal plant stay open past the long-planned Dec. 31 shuttering date. Tri-State is now fixing broken parts at the plant, which it had previously not planned to do given the closure, and will bring it back online. The co-op generator says it has not heard any plan on who will pay the up to $80 million annual cost of running the plant in 2026. The EPA on Friday cited the Department of Energy’s emergency action in calling out Colorado. “These plants are vital to delivering reliable and affordable energy to Colorado families and meeting the surging national energy demand,” the EPA announcement said. The Colorado governor was not happy. And nor were The Blob NGOs — one spokesman at Earthjustice’s Rocky Mountain Office accused Trump, of all things, of being ‘ideological’. The pace of ’emergency coal rescues’ is quickening:By November, Chris Wright, the US Secretary of Energy, had stepped in three times to keep coal plants running, but in December, the pace quickened. Wright not only saved the Colorado plant, but also ordered a coal plant in Washington, and two plants in Indiana to keep running. Trump Keeps Several U.S. Coal Plants Running, Defying ‘End of Coal’ PredictionsBy Kevin Killough, ClimateChangeDespatch Under federal law, the Energy Secretary has the authority when an emergency exists, including a shortage of electricity, to make temporary orders regarding electricity infrastructure to address the emergency. On Dec. 17, Wright ordered the last coal power plant in Washington to remain operational. It was slated for retirement at the end of last month. On Christmas Eve, Wright also blocked the closure of two coal-fired power plants in Indiana, which were to be shuttered the following week. Even DeSmog has noticed Joe Fassler at DeSmog had already tallied up 15 coal plants whose lives had been extended in the USA since Donald Trump was elected, though he admits this was also driven by AI, and data centre demand. Trump made a promise to revive the US Coal industry and to End the War on Coal. “Keeping this coal plant online will ensure Americans maintain an affordable, reliable, and secure supply of electricity. The Trump administration is committed to lowering energy costs and keeping American families safe,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement. If only the Australian government could say the same… Photo: Dave Johnson
By Jo Nova Last year, like every other year, was the hottest variation of something. All the Blob Media reported the latest trivia in unison, with identikit headlines and matching Pantone Bright Red color.  2025 was the third warmest year on record For some reason, despite their Pulitzer prizes, and daily acknowledgement of Dreamtime culture — none of the legacy media journalists remembered that prehistory even existed. It’s like 99% of the last 10,000 years never happened. The Stone-age, Iron-age, Egyptians, Sumerians, Greeks — all, Phht. Not one of the “journalists” asked any of these scientists whether it was misleading to focus on the last 150 years when we had thermometers, when it was hotter for thousands of years, and there was no coal plant in sight. The media is all bread and circuses. It’s a performance art designed to distract us and stop us noticing things that matter. Like the heat in the Holocene, and like the giant volcano called Hunga Tonga. (More on that soon). Since the first Turks carved out stone pillars at Göbekli Tepe 11,000 years ago, there have easily been 3,000 years hotter than 2025. And we know this because sea levels were higher all around the world from 4,000 to 7,000 years ago. The climate was so different then, fish swam in the Sahara desert. and 4,000 bits of hunting gear and personal possessions froze solid in Norwegian ice that would not melt for 3,000 years.  Göbekli Tepe By Kerimbesler Sea level have been falling for 7,000 years in Western Australia — one of the most stable and ancient pieces of land in the world. (Lewis et al). How could the world be cooler than today and the seas be 2 meters deeper?
It’s the same all around the world. In Taiwan giant oysters lived 3 meters above the current waterline. In Africa along thousands of kilometers of the entire west coast sea levels have been falling as the world cooled for thousands of years. (Vacci et al). Hundreds of Pacific islands were “born” out of the ocean as sea levels fell in the last 7000 years. (Kench et al)
Human civilization was born in the hot Holocene and yet somehow we and the corals survived just fine…. Tell the children they called it The Holocene Optimum. REFERENCESLewis, S.E., et al., Post-glacial sea-level changes around the Australian margin: a review, Quaternary Science Kench, P.S., Liang, C., Ford, M.R. et al. (2023) Reef islands have continually adjusted to environmental change over the past two millennia. Nat Commun 14, 508 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36171-2 Vacchi, M., Shaw, T.A., Anthony, E.J. et al (2025) . Sea level since the Last Glacial Maximum from the Atlantic coast of Africa. Nat Commun 16, 1486 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56721-0
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