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All around the world it’s The Blob versus The People: Democracies under threat in Poland and Brazil
By Jo Nova It’s election day in the USA. But the news that has barely rated a mention in Australia is about democracies that are hanging by a thread. There’s been a near coup in Poland in the last few days, and a real coup in Brazil, but the Australian ABC is too busy telling us about cane toad control, sex offenders and the daily report from Gaza to have time to discuss something as insignificant as a coup d’état in Europe.
Even the EU is waking up to the need for oil refineries
Image by John from Pixabay By Jo Nova Having spent a decade trying to put oil refineries out of business with the Paris agreement and carbon penalties, suddenly the EU is ‘talking’ to oil refineries about keeping them in action. The oil chickens have come home in Europe. Winter is on the way, their gas storage is at a record low for this time of year, and gas prices have ominously and rapidly climbed above 100€ for the first time since the Ukrainian War crisis in 2022.
Congratulations climate skeptics - you are a ‘Hybrid weapon of war’ and a growing public health threat
Congratulations climate skeptics — you are a ‘Hybrid weapon of war’ and a growing public health threat By Jo Nova | October 28, 2026 Horrible people want to discuss upper tropospheric warming or their electricity bills and we can’t have that. Careless discussion of such like, or radiosondes, cannot be permitted. Rest assured, the World Health Organization (the WHO) are here to save you from accidentally hearing any climate debates.
BINGO — Another billion dollar industry arrives to feed off “The Climate Crisis™”
By Jo Nova Australian companies will pay $1+ billion in climate accounting fees, including reporting CO2 produced in other countries One thousand million dollars a year, soon to be more, is being sucked out of the Australian economy to pointlessly track carbon emissions. And companies will pay more than that to hire consultants to calculate the emissions so the accountants can check them. It creates a new vested interest wanting more of this red tape.
Blockbuster! PETM Study shows fish boomed when CO₂ was five times higher and Earth was 5–8°C warmer
Photo of Blue Eyed Scad near Hawaii by Steve D | Wiki By Jo Nova The hottest time since the dinosaurs died out has been held up as the posterchild of a carbon disaster, but it turns out that despite CO2 reaching a shocking 2,000 ppm or more plus temperatures being so high, fish life boomed. All the panic about carbon dioxide ruining the ocean and acidification killing off the fish isn’t borne out by the data.
Looks like to save the environment we need to bring back plastic straws
Image by redprick2001 from Pixabay By Jo Nova After all those good intentions and smug lectures the awful truth comes out. A Korean study has found that out of four different kinds of straws, good old plastic straws had the lowest environmental footprint in 10 of 16 categories. Despite being made from fossil fuels, plastic straws had the lowest carbon footprint and incidentally, were also the least harmful to humans.
Congratulations climate skeptics — you are a ‘Hybrid weapon of war’ and a growing public health threat
By Jo Nova Horrible people want to discuss upper tropospheric warming or their electricity bills and we can’t have that. Careless discussion of such like, or radiosondes, cannot be permitted. Rest assured, the World Health Organization (the WHO) are here to save you from accidentally hearing any climate debates. Average voters must be shielded from climate disinformation, lest they forget to vote correctly, sorry, I mean, forget to leave burning buildings. Because that could happen to anyone, right?
Billion dollar ABC defends the BOM against those unpaid volunteers who spotted real errors
By Jo Nova Apparently it’s to cover up Big Government failures. The MediaWatch team used its resources to deflect attention from things that matter to the nation, to do petty ad hominen attacks on citizen scientists working for free. If they had spend two minutes checking the links on the BOM’s own website they’d know Tom Berger and Geoff Sherrington were right, and that today, the errors are still there.
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More Magical Science: Fossil fuels are so powerful they prevented another ice age
When the next ice ages comes for New York By Jo Nova If Antarctica hasn’t melted, Tuvalu hadn’t disappeared and the super cyclones haven’t come, it’s not because the models were wrong — it’s because we almost had an ice age. Carbon dioxide’s effect is so powerful it controls the Earth but it’s just bad luck that we can’t see it at the moment. Got it? No, really, it’s true.
The Ongoing Data Tampering By Australia’s Bureau Of Meteorology
Written by Jo Nova on October 23, 2026.
Cost blowouts on cost blowouts: the Snowy Hydro Renewable Bandaid doubles again
Hydro power station no. 3 Snowy scheme | Joe “velojo” A https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydro_power_station_no._3_Snowy_scheme_(1)_-_panoramio.jpg By Jo Nova No wonder they sat on this bill for four months As predicted the Snowy Hydro costs have doubled again from $12 billion to $25 billion (and that’s not counting another $20 billion in high voltage lines). Adding to the challenge, the main headrace tunnel has a 25 degree slope which is a very steep incline.
The EU deal with Climate Shackles is not a Free Trade Agreement
By Jo Nova So the EU wants a free trade agreement but only if they can slap trade sanctions on us if we breach the Net Zero “Paris Agreement” rules. Righto. We only sell about 6% of our saleable stuff to the EU, and for a small gain in that, we’re going to let them lock us into rules about energy production that affect the other 94%? Worse, we’ve been thinking about this absurd demand for months and no one in the government has figured out how to say “Not on your life”.
A Forgotten 30 year forestry experiment produced astonishing results
Kalatha giant tree walk, Sylvia Creek Rd, Toolangi, Victorian Central Highlands, Australia Tirin (www.takver.com) In a rare experiment that has lasted nearly 40 years, it turns out that thinning native forest heavily allowed some surviving trees to grow into giants quite quickly. These trees were so large this forest area had regained as much carbon as the untouched areas held. More surprisingly, the only areas where they couldn’t find any leadbeater possums were the unmanaged forests.
‘Trust me’ approach must end: climate scientists should release raw data to restore public trust
— Lord Acton Let’s apply the lessons of other fields to climate science I would have little confidence in a public company whose accounts are not audited. I would not invest in such a company. Of course, I could not invest in such a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, because it is a condition of listing that a company has its accounts audited by an outside auditor every six months.
Flying cars have arrived. Is there anything Elon Musk can’t do?
Epic Roast! Blathering Idiot AOC’s Prior Comments on Elon Musk Come Back to Haunt Her — MUST-SEE VIDEO | Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit Epic roast! Chattering parrot AOC is roasted over her stupidity once again. On Thursday night, Elon Musk showcased his latest absolutely amazing technological advancement! Elon unveiled his next-generation Tesla Roadster during an event in Texas, showing off a car that can fly, do flips, and go from 0 to 60 mph in under one second.
BOMs Blockbuster Scientific Scandal: the Raw Data is Not Raw
By Jo Nova In science, the raw data is sacrosanct, but a new type of analysis shows hundreds of anomalies and oddities in BOM Raw data, and whole months of supposedly raw records have been cut and pasted, in one instance as far as 40 years earlier.
Scientists discover bleached corals can fix themselves in days
Just like that: Bleached coral turns into live coral | Credit Danny Collins Nature By Jo Nova Despite the $4 billion dollar reef rescue package, the shade sails, plans to dim the sun, and trash our economy — it turns out corals fix themselves. The bleached coral needs to touch a piece of living coral of the same species for a few days. The living part and the bleached white shell fuse together and in a flash, the symbiotic algae are spreading from the healthy part to the bleached one.
Climate Change is attacking our brains (Time to buy Emergency Solar panels to stop dementia?)
By Jo Nova Climate change is a growing threat to brain health they tell us now… Warmer temperatures cause dementia now, don’t you know? You might have thought it was ultraprocessed foods, pesticides, too much whiskey, or herpes viruses, but it was just too many warm nights. It’s not that our couch-potato-muscles turned to jello when we stopped having to chop wood or hand-wash the clothes in the copper. The real culprit was your car and your beefsteak, plastic bags, internal combustion engines.
Shh: CEO’s and Labor don’t want to talk about climate change anymore
By Jo Nova Even the Australian Financial Review is admitting no one wants to talk about climate anymore We’ve reached that point where even the leading globalist-friendly newspaper is writing long features on the decline of interest in climate change. The pre-COP was a flop, the corporate world is backing away, the polls are sliding, and even the Labor government is using the terms climate change and net zero 60% less than it did a few years ago.
Carbon Credits to turn into general communist fiat currency to stop storms, help indigenous people, jobs, frogs, picnic spots whatever
Let’s build an economy on a pile of dumb ideas By Jo Nova The Big-Government Blob spent years telling us we needed a free market in carbon to save the world, and now that they’ve got one they want to botch it up. I always said they wouldn’t know a free market if it sat on them, and here they go and prove it.
Western civilization is worth defending
By Jo Nova On October 7th Marco Rubio made a speech for the ages in Athens, with the Parthenon as his backdrop. The West has lost its way, he says, and taught our children to be ashamed but Western Civilization is worth defending. We will either choose to act now, or lose the chance to act at all. We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power.
The High Court says we have to ask our miners if they can stop people in China or Japan burning our coal or gas
By Jo Nova The newest High Court decision looks more like a win on a technicality, but it does make us look silly, like a stupid place to invest, and leaves our industries open to sabotage through years in pointless red tape and lawfare. It’s a bit like a telling a committee that assesses satellite launches that they will have to consider whether each satellite will change the orbit of Jupiter — and, just to be safe, consider whether they could impose conditions on Jupiter.
Babies will die! Heat and pregnancy is this week’s new scare to add money and power for the UN
ClimateChangeNews By Jo Nova In the news this week is Julia Gillard, former Australia PM, who announced a sob-story, sorry, ‘study’ about pregnant women suffering due to extreme heat (like this hasn’t been happening for the last ten thousand years). But the study turned out to be just a poll of 1,000 health workers who’d seen cases of something untoward that they “believed” was due to extreme heat. It’s not like they had new actual data, trend lines, temperatures or anything.
A $20 million dollar Pre-COP Flop to entertain two leaders and hundreds of hanger-ons? Elitist holiday camp?
By Jo Nova While the ABC is selling us sad stories of islanders on Fiji whose homes have had to be moved “due to climate change” the Australian government is spending perhaps $20 million dollars instead on a four-day junket at five star hotels for the elite hobnobbing officials. Chris Bowen had big plans to “position Pacific voices to shape global climate negotiations”.
Could Lithium Be Used To Treat Alzheimers Disease?
Written by Jo Nova on October 5, 2026. Posted in Current News A major new study this month suggests for the first time, finally, what might be a causal link between a deficiency in lithium and Alzheimer’s. The team at Harvard asks: Could Lithium Explain — and Treat — Alzheimer’s Disease? A few weeks ago, they released a big paper in Nature.
Winning: New York Times tosses out “climate change” and tries to rebrand it “energy security”
But why are politicians and others in power so hesitant to talk about the climate? Right-wing populists on both sides of the Atlantic have taken aim at climate policies as a liberal elitist project that hurts working-class people. So that must hurt then, that their political enemies have nailed the truth to the mast exactly as it is and she has no way to prove them wrong. Climate is not only toxic for voters, it’s ammo for the lawyers too.
Even Tom Cruise can’t make a politically correct climate satire against Big Oil funny
By Jo Nova It looks like climate activists accidentally made a $180 million dollar mass-market movie that only appeals to the doomster greenie fringe who hate old white men and Big Oil. The only reviewers with anything good to say, are ‘surprise’ the ABC and the BBC. “Digger might just be the year’s best film — if you trust the process”, says the ABC cryptically. But over at lefty headquarters, the New York Times headlines it with “Even Tom Cruise can’t save this strained satire”. It’s that bad.
Let the bunfight begin! Energy giants battle the bureaucrats in the interconnector cost blame wars
By Jo Nova The sunny days of the clean green cheap energy transition are over. Australian’s electricity bills are up again and nobody believes they will come back down. Now the Green Team is fracturing over who gets stuck with which bit of the bill. Australia’s largest electricity generator-and-retailer, AGL, wants the poles and wires companies to foot the bill when their big transmission lines turn out to be massively more expensive and not as useful as they forecast.
Ultra Bad El Nino to kill 450,000, it’s the “worst in 1,000 years” (or at least since satellites began)
Sea surface temperature anomalies across the Pacific. By Jo Nova This El Nino is absolutely definitely the worst – apart from all the other ones we don’t know about, which is most of them. Satellites only started in 1979, and prehistoric records of atmospheric pressure are thin on the ground. For some reason Pacific Islanders weren’t paddling out in canoes recording the sea surface temperature every day, and they certainly weren’t doing it across 5,500 kilometers, which is the area we watch today.
Trump wipes out the EV car mandate — cars don’t have to try to change the weather
The Guardian Environmentalists decry move that relaxes requirements on automakers to control pollution from gas-powered cars The Trump administration on Monday announced it was slashing clean car rules that had been aimed at reducing planet-heating emissions and boosting electric vehicles. Monday’s move follows the Trump administration’s rollback of the government’s ability to impose requirements to track, report and limit climate-heating pollution from cars and trucks.
It’s a Syndemic! Climate Change makes children eat junk food (they say)
By Jo Nova Sob Sob. You awful sod. Because you drive a petrol car, somewhere there are children living off two minute noodles. If you only bought an EV, the kids might eat lettuce again. At least that’s what you are supposed to think. The lines of evidence are so convoluted it took four experts to write this: Wildfires, floods, and other extreme weather events are no longer the only ways in which climate change affects the lives of children around the world.
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According to Walters’ framework and the analysis of her work, the reliance on white paint ties into broader systemic and racial dynamics in the following ways: 1. The Myth of “Neutrality” as a Proxy for Whiteness Walters argues that society treats white paint as a neutral, blank, or value-free default.
How much Climate Change™ angst is propped up by China or is even a Cold War weapon of statecraft?
Photo by Serg Balak on Unsplash By Jo Nova Potentially, fifty years from now people may look back and marvel at how easily (and cheaply) China could wind up the Western liberals, and how they got away with it. We may wonder how it was not obvious that the world was caught in a covert Cold War. We don’t have all the receipts to say that now, and may never get them, but we have the method, the motive and the opportunity.
Coalition updates their climate policy, and it’s good but not good enough
Image by Алекс Бон from Pixabay By Jo Nova The Coalition have finally updated their climate policy. They are reigniting the climate war, at least on half their burners. They will scrap Net Zero and the Safeguard (carbon trading) Mechanism, and the New Vehicle Emissions Standard (which punish diesel and petrol cars and favor EVs). They will try to steer our energy regulators back towards cheap energy instead of the expensive sort that supposedly fiddles with the weather.
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It’s time to ask if we can convert Snowy 2.0 to an adventure park?
By Jo Nova Here at the Renewable Crash Test Dummy, the bad news about Snowy 2.0 (the pumped hydro project) is either piling up or it’s being buried alive, smothered by bureaucrats afraid of losing their jobs. At this point, converting it into a tourist attraction might be the only way to recoup a fraction of the cost. Can we do the world’s first 7 kilometer underground white water rafting ride? The kids will love it.
Monday — the Southern Hemisphere steals the sun back
Monday — the Southern Hemisphere steals the sun back Happy Equinox, wherever you are. 10 out of 10 based on 1 rating
AI demands for regulation are just like Big Pharma’s: it’s about protecting them, not you
AI might not be the friend you were thinking. Image by RuneSnow from Pixabay By Jo Nova Ed Dowd, the former BlackRock Hedge fund manager who bravely led the way in analyzing excess deaths after Covid vaccination, sums up the motives behind the sudden demand for AI regulation. The behemoths of the biggest stock market boom are at a crunch point. They face competition from open source AI models that threaten their market position.
BHP says each Battery Truck will cost 1,000 hours in productivity — it will keep diesel and delay Net Zero
By Jo Nova Just another day in the great unwinding of the Green delusion The largest company in Australia has just announced they are delaying their Net Zero plans. They will still reach the mythical land of Net Zero sometime, but it will just take longer. Their emissions nine years from now will be about 33 per cent higher than what they had been aiming for.
Looks like solar activity can change the Pacific ocean…
An active sun affects the stratosphere which in turn changes conditions underwater. By Jo Nova The most powerful and enigmatic force on our weather are the Pacific El Nino and La Nina phenomena which cause floods and droughts on opposite sides of the Pacific. Unfortunately, climate modelers can’t predict them much more than three to five months ahead, which tells us there’s some big driver they are missing.
The drone attack on the Saudi Pipeline exposes how the US is self sufficient and Australia is hung out like a shag on a rock.
By Jo Nova We backed ourselves into this corner The reason the price of oil has been well behaved in the last few months is because boats were sneaking out of the Strait of Hormuz and Saudi Arabia has a big pipe. But drones from Iran took out a big pumping station in Saudi Arabia a few days ago, and at least for a while, the world is going to be five million barrels of oil short each day.
Slaying the Bureaucratic Blob: Trump expected to tell US power plants to emit as much CO2 as they want
Image by Julius H. from Pixabay By Jo Nova Trump’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, is expected to announce today that they will scrap the limits set for ‘climate pollution’ from US power plants. Naturally, the Blob Bureaucrats will oppose this in the courts in every way possible. But there is something much bigger at stake here than just American electricity prices.
AI designs new viruses (and in theory, bioweapons). Just one more reason why the AI arms race is existential.
By Jo Nova AI may well be a stock investment bubble, but the AI arms race is a hell-for-leather battle where the winner takes it all With AI development on an exponential curve towards self improving models, the nation that gets “there” first may get access to their adversaries encryption codes, crack their firewalls, hack their software, design the better drones, anti-missile weaponry, cure diseases and own the patents the world wants, or create the bioweapons that sabotage crops, generate...
Surprise! Government battery bubble feeds crime, corruption, incompetence, safety breaches…
By Jo Nova In the desperate days of watching a Net Zero target disappear over the event horizon, the Labor Government realized they could entice Australians into buying the home batteries they weren’t going to buy — by ordering up a “30% off sale”. The taxpayer would be slugged for the 30% so the sellers weren’t going to complain.
Chris Bowen clangers: Coal is the most unreliable energy, and when it goes down prices go up?!
By Jo Nova Coal is the most unreliable energy and other fairy tales Lord help us all. Chris Bowen — Minister of Storms in 2100 and coincidentally in charge of our national energy, could have given some straight up answers, instead he shared some fairytales, and made absurd contradictions spiced with inane cliches. Four years after taking charge he’s still blaming the Coalition and the Russians for everything.
If only Chris Bowen had some answers he wouldn’t need a Ministry of Misinformation to attack critics
By Jo Nova The rise of One Nation has spooked the Government. A large section of the public hates their policy. But like any true socialist they won’t wonder if it’s because it’s a stupid plan, they’ll play the victim and attack the unbelievers. Climate Change Authority has released Misinformation: A climate policy risk,which is just an excuse to attack the unbelievers with snide allegations about their mysterious funding.
Iran shuts down a UK power plant for four days, but that’s no biggie…
Image by emely krause from Pixabay By Jo Nova Australians may not be aware but Iranian hackers managed to knock out a UK power plant in July and it took four days to get it restarted. But there’s no need to worry. The UK power plant was so small and the event so minor that the UK government took weeks to announce it and still won’t tell us the name of the plant. But it was absolutely no threat to the UK grid. None at all.
It’s another sad blow to what once was The World’s Largest Renewable Energy Proposal
By Jo Nova The World’s Largest Renewable Energy Proposal was planned for the best place on Earth (for renewables) but it still can’t make any numbers add up. The Australian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) was a glorious $55 billion dream that was going to cover 6,500 square kilometres with 1,700 wind turbines and 11,000 megawatts of solar panels.
No hot dinner for the poor — “Smart Switch” helps people become living Negawatts to rescue the grid
By Jo Nova We’re from the Government and we’re here to help you reduce your quality of life… The government screwed up the electricity grid and wants the poor to rearrange their lives to suit the grid to make the mess less noticeable. The geniuses filled the gird with unreliable generators because they were told by experts that they might stop storms in a hundred years or cool the world by 0.001°C.
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