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Deadly “red skies” 800 years ago suggest Sun was extremely active in the medieval warm period

By Jo Nova

The big solar storms of 1201-1204 might be oldest historical records of extreme space weather.

It turns out the Sun was far more active than we thought during the warm late Medieval era — which is jolly awkward for the climate modelers who need to believe the sun is just a irrelevant ball of light that has no effect on Earth’s weather. If high solar activity correlates with warming on Earth (which it seems to) the modelers can’t keep ignoring the sun.

The crux of the matter, is if they add in more solar factors, the models might accidentally actually work without needing CO2. That would be a disaster (for the modelers).

On February 21 and 23 of 1201 AD, a Japanese poet wrote of seeing striking red auroras near Kyoto Japan. Someone nearby described the same thing on Feb 22, which makes it an intense three day solar storm. So researchers started looking for carbon 14 in buried wood in Northern Japan, and, voila, they found a huge  spike in carbon 14 that suggest a “sub extreme solar proton event”. They rate this is “about 20% of the Miyake event in 774/775, a legendary solar storm.

The carbon 14 data was so detailed they were able to piece together three solar cycles from 1190 – 12:20. Which means the solar cycles then were only 7 – 8 years long, and were extremely active. In modern times we know that longer cycles are slower quieter ones. During the Little Ice Age the cycles were as long as 16 years and there were long periods with no sunspots at all.

Variation of the solar modulation parameter for the past millennium obtained based on carbon-14 data (Brehm et al., 2021).1)

The team found a whole new solar cycle peaking in 1204 that we didn’t know about.

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/102/4/102_pjab.102.011/_html/-char/en

From the paper come the descriptions of many solar observations recorded from 800 years ago:

For example, in Meigetsuki, the diary of Fujiwara no Sadaie, a Japanese courtier famous for his poetry, there are descriptions indicating the occurrence of low-latitude red aurorae in Kyoto on February 21 and 23, 1204.6) The sighting of a red aurora is also recorded for February 22 in another historical document, Omuro Soshoki, which remains in Kyoto, suggesting that the intense magnetic storm continued for three consecutive days, making it one of the oldest extreme space weather events documented in historical records. During these three days, red and white stripes were observed toward the north and northeast. This event may be associated with the appearance of a large sunspot with the size of a date palm, as recorded in a Chinese document on February 21, 1204.3) There are also recordings of the sighting of aurorae in the following month in Meigetsuki as well as in a Chinese document2) and a French document.8) In Meigetsuki, there is a description that aurorae were seen over three nights,7) although it was hearsay within the imperial court.

This suggests that solar activity was higher for longer than we thought during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). It’s more evidence that solar activity correlates with the  global temperatures.

It’s remarkable to see how many space weather events are recorded:

Date Location Reference
1193 Jan 22 red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1193 (Apr 4–May 2) red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1193 Dec 3–12 sunspot China Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
1194 Oct 23 red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1200 Aug 11 red aurora Italy Fritz, 18734)
1200 Sep 19 sunspot Korea Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
1200 Sep 21–26 sunspot China Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
* 1200 (Nov 9–Dec 7) red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
* 1201 Jan 9–29 sunspot China Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
* 1201 Apr 6 sunspot Korea Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
1202 Aug 23 sunspot Korea Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
1202 Dec 19–31 sunspot China Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
1202 Dec 19 red aurora Japan (Kyoto) Centr. Met. Obs. and Mar. Met. Obs. of Japan, 19395)
1203 Apr 1–3 red aurora Germany Fritz, 18734)
1204 Feb 3–5 sunspot Korea Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
1204 Feb 21 sunspot China Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
1204 Feb 21–23 red aurora Japan (Kyoto) Meigetsuki and Omuro Soshoki (see Kataoka et al., 20176))
1204 Mar 29 red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882); Kataoka et al., 20176)
1204 Mar 28–30 red aurora Japan (Kyoto) Meigetsuki (see Inamura, 20027) and Kataoka et al., 20176))
1204 (Mar 8–Apr 7) red aurora France Kataoka et al., 20176); Brial, 18228)
1204 (Apr 2–May 1) red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1204 (Apr–Jun) red aurora Germany Fritz, 18734)
1205 Jan 20 red aurora Japan (Kyoto) Meigetsuki (see Inamura, 20027))
1205 May 4 sunspot China Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
1205 Oct 8 red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1206 Oct 10 red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1207 Jan 25 red aurora China Abbott and Juhl, 20163)
1209 (March 8–Apr 5) red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1210 (Feb 26–Mar 26) red aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1211 Apr 23 white aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1226 Apr 13 pale yellow aurora China Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 19882)
1238 Dec 5 sunspot China Abbott and Juhl, 20163)

Heresay within the imperial court.

REFERENCE

Hiroko MIYAHARA, Ryuho KATAOKA, Kazuaki YAMAMOTO, Fuyuki TOKANAI, Toru MORIYA, Mirei TAKEYAMA, Hirohisa SAKURAI, Motonari OHYAMA, Kazuho HORIUCHI, Hideyuki HOTTA. Extremely active Sun from 1190 to 1220 in the Medieval Period: Intercomparison of historical records and tree-ring carbon-14. Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2026; 102 (4): 156 DOI: 10.2183/pjab.102.011

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WHO tells itself to declare global climate health emergency “to save millions”

By Jo Nova

The WHO is itching to trigger the  climate and health “Emergency” Powers Act or whatever legalistic bomb our patsy governments signed on our behalf.

Apparently millions of people will die if we don’t have a UN rubber stamp called “Emergency” to save them — because, obviously the big rich countries would never think to send boatloads of fuel, food and clothes all by themselves. (And if they did, Lordy!  Without being a conduit for millions of our dollars, how could the UN run its own grift and graft machine?)

WHO Commission says alert would trigger coordinated international response that could help avoid millions dying

Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent, The Guardian 

The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said.

Presumably the “Emergency” declaration gives them the tools to declare mandatory vaccination, or ban drugs they don’t like, or to funnel lots of cash.

So the WHO set up a committee to tell the WHO to declare an emergency, eh?

The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic).

So not independent at all.

And the thing that makes this year so awful is a tsunami, asteroid, volcano,… is a bunch of things which are the same every year:

The international spread of vector-borne disease, such as dengue and chikungunya, as well as the health impacts of extreme weather events, global heating, food insecurity and air pollution make a Pheic necessary, said the commission’s report, which will be presented to European ministers on Sunday before the WHO’s world health assembly starts on Monday.

Don’t miss the lingo — a Pheic is a “public health emergency of international concern”. Thats the highest level of health alert. So when Ebola goes global or an asteroid lands in Nevada, that’s it, they get the same rating as chikungunya.

Let’s all just call it a Pheic Emergency… 

The committee includes former health and science ministers — so they’re complete Blob-devotees who know what side of the bread their organic-dairy-free-nut-margarine goes on.

It says something about them that they have to tell their fans that a rubber stamp can’t actually reverse climate change:

Pheics are the highest level of health alert. Previous declarations include infectious diseases such as Covid and Mpox. While declaring one would not on its own reverse climate change, it would trigger the kind of coordinated international response that the scale of the health crisis demands but has not yet materialised.

This is pure stone-age sorcery:

[Sir Andrew Haines] added: “If we carry on emitting at current rates, that will accelerate the risks to health for both current and future generations including: more people suffering and dying from excess heat, floods and infectious diseases, air pollution from wildfires, more preterm births and more food insecurity.”

Hello? Our wild increases in emissions in the last century have left us safer than we’ve ever been. The more CO2 we emit, the less people die of heat, floods, cold and frostbite.

There is no saving the WHO. Nothing it does couldn’t be done better by us directly. The demands it puts out are dangerous unaccountable, and infringements on our rights. It should be disbanded for even suggesting these reckless proposals.

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Tuesday

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Monday

Site has had two outages today. These are not the usual sort. Hopefully will be resolved soon.

Thanks for your patience. This is a problem with the large Australian server that also hosts many huge retail sites. They must be extremely busy today…

 

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Finally, on the edge of extinction, the Australian opposition start to fight on Net Zero

By Jo Nova

Pagan witchdoctors

Walking in the Valley of Political Death, after Trump, Farage, and One Nation took all the risks and paved the way out of the Climate Swamp, the Liberals have finally been dragged into saying a definite “No” to Net Zero, including repealing the toxic Safeguard Mechanism.

What they haven’t done as a party is show leadership.

A few brave souls in the party have spoken out (like Andrew Hastie and Alex Antic) but the official Liberal policy, as explained last November, is still that lowering emissions is a worthy thing for no good reason other than being pagan weather controlling witchcraft. Do the Liberals still think that they should pander to the Paris agreement blob? That’s what they said last year.

The thing about “playing it safe”, as the Liberals have done, is that they were waiting for The People to figure out Net Zero was a pile of voodoo before they would risk being called names by the teenage girly monsters. The problem is that once the people realize Net Zero is an international parasite thriving on grift and graft, it’s about a nanosecond before they want a real leader who will take a blow-torch to the parasites. In that nanosecond they flip to the party of true leaders — the ones who took a position based on principle and led the way.

Until the Liberals take some risks and face down the namecalling vipers, the voters won’t believe they have the mojo to take on the whole cartel of Blob Bankers, Blob Bureaucrats, vested Blob industries and foreign interests who depend upon our climate-patsy compliance with the fantasy.

The Liberals need to start to sell the absurdities of “Net Zero” with conviction. The way to win the Teal seats is not to pander to the fantasy, it’s to mock it mercilessly.

Every day the Liberals wait for the polls to shift they are that much closer to extinction.

It was a good speech, but it could have been a great one…

Extracts of Angus Taylors’s Budget Reply Speech

Second, prioritising net zero and emissions reduction above all else has seen cheap, always-on power dismissed for expensive, sometimes-on, industrial-scale renewables – mainly sourced from offshore.

Power prices have soared – causing households to struggle, businesses to close, and industries to move offshore. Far from a future made in Australia, our future is being made abroad.

Australians have been fed the lie that our economy can function on solar, wind, and batteries alone. But the truth is fossil fuels continue to drive our economy and our prosperity.

In this Budget alone, Labor has $18 billion in new net zero spending. Labor’s net zero obsession is driving up inflation and destroying our economy. That’s why net zero must go.

The Coalition will also abolish Labor’s great big carbon tax – the so-called Safeguard Mechanism.

This tax jacks up the price on essential building materials like steel, cement, and glass – driving up the cost of new homes.

If the Liberal Party have a rebellious spine, or courage under fire, it’s been excised. Those brave souls who spoke out when the costs of saying something was high were often pushed sideways or right out of the party (like Craig Kelly and Gerard Rennick, or Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson).

If the Liberals hadn’t tossed out people like this, they wouldn’t have wasted half a year voting for Susan Ley as a leader in a doomed holding pattern.

The party is a shadow of it’s former self. They did drop Net Zero targets last November, and promise to get rid of the Safeguard mechanism, but then they still thought the Paris Agreement was useful.

 

 

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$9b EV experiment failure: Honda posts first annual loss in 70 years, abandons targets

By Jo Nova

So many great companies fell into the climate sink hole

Such was the cultural vibe that giant corporations all collectively jumped off a cliff together hoping to invent a new technology fast enough to be able to land.

In the case of Honda, after 70 years of endless profits, they burnt at least $9 billion dollars, and have given up the idea of trying to get EVs to make up one fifth of their sales by 2030. The demand just isn’t there. They also thought they could shift their whole fleet to electric or fuel cells by 2030. That’s gone too.

Honda posts first annual loss on $9 billion EV writedown, scraps EV sales goals

TOKYO, May 14 (Reuters) – Honda Motor (7267.T), opens new tab posted its ​first annual loss in nearly 70 years as a listed company on Thursday, hit by more than $9 billion in costs ‌to restructure its electric-vehicle business, and the firm scrapped its long-term EV sales target.
Revealing its worst financial report since Honda listed on the stock market in 1957 underscores how risky an aggressive bet on EVs can be for a legacy automaker when it slams into weaker-than-expected demand.
Toshihiro Mibe, CEO of Japan’s second-largest automaker, on ​Thursday said Honda is scrapping its goal of having EVs make up a fifth of its new car sales in 2030 ​as well as a target of a full shift to electric or fuel-cell vehicle sales by 2040.
And remember, the oil crisis is making things as good for EVs as it possibly can.
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Eating Eggs five times a week associated with 27% lower risk of Alzheimers

By Jo Nova

The Experts said eggs were high fat foods with too much cholesterol, and egg consumption halved for twenty years in Australia, and still hasn’t recovered. Though in the last ten years egg consumption is increasing in places like the USA and Canada.

Egg consumption per capita in Australia and the UK. OWID

Research Shows That Avoiding Eggs Entirely Linked To 22% Higher Risk Of Memory-Stealing Disease

[StudyFinds]:  But now researchers have tracked nearly 40,000 older adults for more than 15 years, and  found that people who ate eggs regularly were far less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease than those who never or rarely touched them. The most frequent egg eaters, those having five or more servings a week, showed a 27% lower risk.

In this graph below, it’s almost like eating less than 10 grams a day of egg is a deficiency….

The study was published in The Journal of Nutrition, and drew on data from the Adventist Health Study-2.

The results show there is an association between eggs and dementia, but this sort of study can’t prove causation. It’s always possible that people who have some high risk of dementia for some reason choose not to eat eggs. But on the plus side, the results were dose dependent — the more eggs people ate, the lower their risk of Alzheimers, which is about as good as it gets in this kind of study.  And they did exclude all the obvious factors, including vegans, and still found the strong link.

There are reasons…

Eggs are some of the richest sources for choline which is essential from brain and liver health. We know people taking cholinergics (e.g. some antihistamines) may be at higher risk of Alzheimers, and the condition is associated with a loss of cholinergic neurons and a drop in acetyl-choline levels.

Two eggs provides almost as much choline as a 3 oz steak but cost a lot less. Eggs also have antioxidants like lutein and zeaxanthin, and they have some DHA fat that is more common in fish oil (especially if the eggs come from free range chickens.)

The study was funded by the American Egg Board, so there’s a potential bias, but it begs the question — why wasn’t this study done in 1980 before the experts tossed eggs under the bus? Where was the government?

For forty years people thought they were doing “the scientific thing” and were following the experts, but potentially thousands of people suffered with a  form of dementia that might have been prevented?

Alzheimers is the fifth leading cause of death in the USA but the leading cause of death in a more egg-deficient Australia and also Number 1 in the UK. Though of course, there are other contributors that differ from country to country, like sunlight, vitamin D, and recent medical experiments.

Tens of thousands of people suffered. They missed out on the joy of eggs, and possibly got Alzheimers too. 

For no good reason I can think of, apart from being a rich nation with plenty of beef, Australia has some of the lowest egg eating habits.

Related:

REFERENCE

Jisoo Oh, Keiji Oda, Gabriela Chiriac, Gary E. Fraser, Rawiwan Sirirat, and Joan Sabaté, affiliated with the Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyles, and Disease Prevention at the School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, and related departments at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California “Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Adventist Health Study-2 Cohort Linked with Medicare Data. . The Journal of Nutrition.” DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2026.101541.

OWID – Egg consumption

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“Forget Climate Change” says New York Times to Democrats

By Jo Nova

Climate Change has become electoral poison

Too late, the socialists have realized they’ve lost the working class

Not only did the British Labour Party get humiliated in the last few days, but ten thousand miles away, so did the Australia conservatives where they suffered a catastrophic 30% swing to One Nation. The unthinkable is happening. unelectable Climate Deniers are romping home politically, and the workers are voting “far-right”.

Climate change and the core left-wing totems are not just failing to reach voters, they’re actively turning them away. It’s the same in the US where voters have already elected the antichrist of Climate Action (and three times already). It’s slowly dawning on the socialists that it is not a momentary blip.

Things are getting so bad, the New York Times warned Democrats to “Forget climate change, and talk about something else.”.

Hat tip to Climate Depot

 

orget Climate Change. Democrats Need to Talk About Other Issues.

The left took the working class for granted:

Matthew T Huber, New York Times

For the past several months, Democratic elites have been debating how much to talk about climate change, if at all — in part because these new candidates have narrowed their focus to energy affordability to win back the working class.

But their plan to win back the working class won’t work — they picked the wrong topic, then stuck to it like glue, then left it too late to say “sorry” and they aren’t saying sorry anyway. They’re not even admitting they were wrong. “To be clear, this does not mean an abandonment of climate goals.” They say. Instead they make excuses about how good leaders will do things that reduce emissions anyhow, like offering free buses, or redesigning building codes, but they won’t call it “climate change”. Because, shh, we don’t want the voters to know what we are doing, or what we believe. We just want to win, right? Yay, democracy?

In one survey 59% of voters were bothered that climate change had become political. That’s a huge slab of the population that doesn’t believe “climate science” is scientific anymore, it’s just political — 59%!

The Pew Research Center routinely asks Americans to rank their top concerns, and climate change is consistently near the bottom. The Searchlight Institute found that 59 percent of voters in battleground states are “bothered that climate change has become such a political issue,” while only 42 percent are “motivated to do more and support policies to address climate change.” Rather than building a broad coalition necessary to enact something like a Green New Deal, climate change has become yet another issue fueling polarization.

The core problem is that being in power is their only goal, which leaves them lost when when it fails (and when it succeeds too). The solutions they come up with are only about “how to fool the voters into voting for us” — not something constructive like finding out what the people want, or solving some problem, or changing stupid policies in the first place.

The Democratic Party remains deeply unpopular. The way out is to stop elevating a litany of single-issue policies that appeal to the already converted. When it comes to climate change, for now, it might be better to say nothing at all.

Their big plan failed

They thought the Green New Deal would win over the working voters. They didn’t know (and still don’t realize) that for every green job invented, expensive energy would destroy two to five real jobs. Obviously, the workers live the reality.

Later, they must have decided that telling Democrats to “forget climate change” was too close to the truth, so they went back and edited the headline to hide that. Notice how the real meaning got obscured in the rewrite.

 

Democrats Don’t Have to Campaign on Climate Change Anymore

It’s what they do. They lie about everything.

 

 

 

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Starmergeddon — It’s a bloodbath for The Uniparty Blob in the UK elections

By Jo Nova

Turns out, when they have a choice, the Brits don’t want Net Zero or Mass Immigration

The English Council Elections won’t change the UK parliament, but they are the largest most significant poll of the mood of Great Britain. How bad is it? Half the headlines about the PM Kier Starmer are quoting him vowing that he won’t be quitting. It’s that bad. Labour have lost 1,406 seats, and the Tories have lost 557.

Results are still being counted, but extraordinary things are happening. Nigel Farage’s Party — Reform UK — have stormed into more than 1,444 councilor seats in England (out of about 5,000), taken from Labour as well as the Tories. The Conservatives haven’t recovered. The Green wave didn’t happen. As Ross Clark said, “they were supposed to be ‘the insurgent party of the left’ and there was talk of them entering government as part of a left wing coalition”.

Restore Britain, is new party launched by ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe, and endorsed by Elon Musk. They are so new, they only stood in 10 seats, but won all of them. Where Reform UK wants to stop the boats and deport illegal migrants. Restore UK wants to reverse mass immigration.

Wales, meanwhile, is having a full election for the Senned (which was called the Welsh Assembly). Wales is considered a die-hard Labour stronghold, yet after 27 years in government, Labour have lost, with the first Minister of Wales even losing her seat. The new force in Wales is Plaid Cymru, a centre left nationalist party, with Reform the second largest vote winner. Plaid Cymru want independence (eventually). Everyone wants to get rid of big bad governments, even on the left.

Labour suffers historic Wales loss as Reform wins more than 1,000 English council seats and Greens make gains

BBC (Updating regularly)

In England, Reform is the biggest winner, picking up more than 1,400 councillors so far. The Greens and Lib Dems also make gains, while the Conservatives lose almost 500 seats and Labour loses more than 1,300.

Farage says he’d be very sad to see Kier Starmer go.” He’s our greatest asset”.

According to SkyNews UK politics has been upended:

      • Reform 27%
      • Conservatives 20%
      • Labour 15%
      • Greens 14%
      • Lib Dems 14%
      • Others  10%

If these results were projected to the House of Commons in a Parliamentary election — Reform would win 284 seats, but still fall short of a majority (of the 326 seats that it needs to win outright.) But the Labour Party would be wiped out from 400 seats to 110 seats. The Tories would be left to negotiate to be part of a coalition.

Professor Michael Thrasher

“I’ve seen parties lose a lot of seats…

What I’ve never seen before is a party come from zero to 40%”

“I’ve never seen such enormous rapid changes in vote-share.”

And Australia has a one seat test of the same principle today. The People versus The Blob in Farrer.

h/t Another Ian

 

 

 

 

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