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By Jo Nova Despite the news headlines about the hottest ever heatwave in Victoria this week — old Australian newspapers are mysteriously full of reports of hotter temperatures. Consider, for example January 1932.  Photo: Jo Nova The town called Ouyen reached 47.5 °C this week — the “hottest temperature ever recorded” we’re told, but 94 years ago it was reported to be 124 °F (51.1 °C). Not far away Mildura reached 123 °F (50.6 °C) and to the south, Hopetoun reached 114 °F (45.6 °C). You might wonder if these local stations were inaccurate or badly managed, but in New South Wales, Pooncarie recorded 121 °F (49.4 °C) in the shade at 2 pm, Wilcannia – 117 °F (47.2 °C) at the same time, Broken Hill reached 114 °F (45.6 °C), Menindee was 116 °F (46.7 °C), and Bourke – 116 °F (46.7 °C). The heat stretched across to Port Augusta which recorded – 119 °F (48.3 °C). Were they all crazy, or was it really hot? You might also wonder if they were using non-standard thermometers or the wrong screens, or enclosures which might bias the measurements. Except the Bureau of Meteorology standardized official thermometers to Stevenson Screens around the turn of last century, and it was mostly finalized twenty years before these temperatures were recorded. And not only were blisteringly high temperatures recorded across vast distances– but then there are the birds. Lordy but the parrots and zebra finches fell from the skies in mass deaths due to the heat. As a kind of macabre proxy thermometer, we know the temperature crossed some kind of terrible threshhold when there were piles of dead birds “two feet high”, and stories of people hauling out thousands of dead birds from dams, including in one case, as many as 60,000 dead parrots. Credit for this goes to Lance Pidgeon, (Siliggy) the volunteer who dug out all these old temperature recordings from National Archives 15 years ago and found stories about the mass bird deaths during that heat wave which he and Warwick Hughes published. Unlike the BOM, none of us is paid by taxpayers and yet we managed to find these old records. But the BOM is paid nearly a million dollars a day to give Australians the truth the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and yet they don’t seem to be able to do a basic internet search? And even if we do the search for them, they still can’t find it. It’s time the BOM stopped hiding Australia’s climatic history from Australians. In 1909, the town of Bourke had a Stephenson screen and they recorded 125F or 51.7°C.But the BOM deleted that record because it was measured on a Sunday. Given that modern thermometers are electronic, and prone to picking up one-second records, and interference from airport radar, in new small 60L screens, placed near hot tarmac, and then corrected with thermometers up to 1,500 kilometers away, it’s hard to imagine how thermometers in 1932 needed adjustment to correct anything, when they were probably far more accurate than todays errant batch. In this case even if Victoria is somehow a tenth of a degree hotter now that it was in 1932 before China built 1,000 coal plants, it’s a big So What? Is this what we’re turning our economy inside out to change? Australia has always had extremely hot days. The ABC receives a billion dollars a year to tell Australians the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Yet they serve up biased stories which are poorly researched and which coincidentally favor the political team most ABC journalists vote for. Below, the sad story of the mass death of thousands of birds, where dams and wells for hundreds of miles were piled with dead birds… A heatwave kills thousands of birds — this was climate change in 1932 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59308062 So much for 94 years of climate change.Related stories
The site was hit yesterday morning with yet another DDOS (Denial of Service attack)If you had trouble accessing the posts, you weren’t imagining it. Yesterday morning tens of thousands of “people” in Brazil all wanted to read this site in the same hour, which crowded out the usual traffic. So we can add that to the previous attacks from Singapore, USA, Vietnam and China. Someone with control over thousands of computers spread across the world doesn’t like what we discuss here. Thanks for your patience!
 © Jo Nova By Jo Nova “It’s just a matter of time” says Frontier Economics chief Danny PriceEven though it was a public holiday, there was a raging bonfire in prices in South Australia on the evening of Australia Day. The spike in prices hit a blistering $20,000 peak and stayed there for three long hours…
Expert Danny Price warns of ‘catastrophic’ national grid failure after SA price surgeBy Patrick Starick, The Advertiser The average price for every hour of the 24 hour period in South Australia was $2,457 per megawatthour. Frontier Economics chief Danny Price, a key architect of energy policy for state and federal governments, warns renewables cannot meet high electricity demand and predicts significant outages and high prices.
Wholesale electricity spot prices spiked in SA to near the $20,000 per megawatt hour limit on a still Monday night, when household batteries drained and wind generation dipped, prompting the Australian Energy Market Operator to issue a low-reserve warning at 8.42pm.
“It is only a matter of time. It will happen. There’s no doubt that it will happen. Year by year the system becomes more fragile and that’s because people are spending less on coal.”
Dan Lee at WattClarity tracked the big batteries in South Australia and says they were run almost flat by 8:30pm. The 1.5GWh battery was down to 66MWh — empty. This outcome is perhaps unsurprising given that much of the region’s battery fleet contains around two hours of duration, while the period of sustained high prices extended for more than three hours, pushing many batteries toward their energy limits as the evening wore on. Danny Price thought it was “very, very lucky” that so far, heatwaves have basically hit Australia on weekends and holidays. The state was running on an LOR1 — lack of reserve, Level 1. for hours. So any unexpected unit failure or break in a line could bring down the system. To shore up Australia’s electricity grid, obviously then, we need more public holidays and weekends? Do it for the nation, eh?! Shame if you run a business… January 28th, 2026 | Tags: Blackouts, SA (South Australia) | Category: Global Warming, Renewable |  Print This Post | | 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 |
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