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 An Oil Tanker at Kwinana, Western Australia. Photo by Calistemon. By Jo Nova Like the US and UK — the political tides have shifted in Australia and our Prime Minister’s petty scorn of the rising right wing party will bite himDear PM, One Nation wouldn’t need to go begging to Asia for spare diesel because we’d be drilling for it ourselves… Even the Labor Party is now worried about the meteoric rise of One Nation in the polls. So Anthony Albanese, the PM, tried to attack Pauline Hanson by arguing that she couldn’t go crawling to Asia for emergency fuel supplies (like he did), because Asia will remember what she has said. (Which is roughly that she wants to stop mass immigration from Asia (and everywhere else) and end the multicultural experiment.) One Nation just need to point out the obvious — that a smart political party wouldn’t need to run off and beg for fuel in the first place, because they’d be self sufficient instead. It was his incompetence that meant Australia had only a 30 day supply of fuel, barely two refineries, and no merchant fleet (not one ship!) and had made it impossibly hard for explorers to drill. He’s knows this is true. After the crisis, his government has already bought at least one cargo ship, is talking about building refineries, and has promised to build up our strategic fuel reserve. Labor and Anthony Albanese on the slide in three states, Newspoll findsBy Geoff Chambers, The Australian The surge in One Nation’s primary vote in Newspoll over the past three months, hitting a record 31 per cent last month before edging back to 29 per cent in the most recent poll, has dented core backing for the major parties across most key demographics and states. The Prime Minister on Friday took aim at One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for pushing for Australia to dump multiculturalism and embrace a monoculture. Mr Albanese, who is increasingly being forced to turn his political attacks onto One Nation given its poll surge, said Senator Hanson’s approach would have made her unable to secure fuel from Asian trading partners at the height of the oil supply crunch. “I reckon they (Asian leaders) probably remember what she has said about them,” Mr Albanese said. And in the interim, while Australia restores its own oil and gas industry and builds back the refineries that the Uniparty have destroyed, a One Nation prime minister could easily ask the culturally aligned USA for oil and gas. In any case, the Japanese Prime Minister would probably be pretty sympathetic to an Australian leader who was concerned about the rise of China, and one who understood why Japan chooses not to allow mass immigration, and wanted to have a similar policy. The Labor Party have no idea what’s coming, and sadly, nor do the Liberals. One Nation are now the Party of the long forgotten workers:The news poll looked at nearly 5,000 voters in polls spread across the last 3 months. Just as many women as men supported One Nation, and there is a strong move in young voters towards One Nation. One Nation dominates the non-university educated voter cohorts, with the quarterly analysis showing the party holding a commanding lead over the major parties in both the no tertiary (33 per cent) and TAFE or technical qualifications (36 per cent) categories. University-educated voters are sticking with Labor (38 per cent), ahead of the Coalition (20 per cent) and One Nation (17 per cent). Support for One Nation among university-educated Australians has more than doubled since the end of December. Among those with a household income over $100,000, Labor was the most popular choice, with 30 per cent of the vote. And so it is, that the Labor Party have become the party of the academics and the wealthy, and the workers of Australia are realizing that they’ve been sold out.
July 4th, 2026 | Tags: Australian Politics, One Nation | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | | Comments (62)
 Russelville Powerplant by Edibobb By Jo Nova Remember all the people who said coal was a stranded asset?The two largest economies on Earth are throwing money at it. The AI boom is pushing the USA to invest in fossil fuel power in a big way(especially gas). America Bets $50 Billion On Coal And Gas Power, More Than China, As Electricity Demand SoarsIrena Slav, OilPrice U.S. companies are set to spend some $50 billion on power generation from coal and natural gas this year, the International Energy Agency has said, as quoted by the Financial Times. This would be the first time in decades that U.S. spending on coal and gas generation would be higher than what China is investing in the two fuels, with the difference at $3 billion. That is some transformation — wow.  Financial Times/ Zerohedge. Waiting times have blown out for gas turbines: The report cited a Rystad Energy analyst as saying prices for gas turbines have gone up from $800 per kWh to over $2,500. In addition to data centers, whose owners have bet on baseload power supply from gas power plants—and coal, too—the expansion of wind and solar has also prompted stronger demand for baseload generation to keep the grid balanced when the weather is unfavorable for either wind or solar generation, or both. While demand for electricity soars, gas turbine production has been flat over the past few years, resulting in a deficit. Siemens Energy, one of the world’s top three gas turbine makers, reported in February that its gas services business had seen a record quarter in orders, with a total of 102 new turbines in the backlog. As much as 40% of these new orders came from the United States, and another 35% came from Europe.
As a commenter at Zero Hedge opined: China spends $50B on coal plants and builds 50 new coal plants. US spends $50B on coal plants and that pays for the permits, environmental studies and 10 years of litigation in the courts for one new coal plant. We hope Trump has got rid of some of that red tape. Still, it’s hard to sell the end of coal when the biggest economies are spending gangbusters on fossil fuels.
By Jo Nova Each year the World Bank hands out about $120 billion dollars in grants and loans to poor and middle income countries. But with 670 million people still without access to electricity, you’d think they’d have more important things to do than trying to slow storms in 100 years time. However The World Bank is a pure creature of The Blob — dependent on Big Government handouts, and comfortably one or two degrees of separation away from any voters or accountability which makes it free to waste money on vainglorious trivia. Unfortunately for the apparatchik the US is the world’s biggest funder of The World Bank, and President Trump has been giving them a hard time. A few months ago, Scott Bessent called on the World Bank to get back to their core mission — saying they’d lost their way trying to work in climate change, gender, and fashionable social issues. They do have a policy to end poverty by “accelerating gender equity” — if you can believe. The world’s poor need roads, ports, clean water and reliable electricity, not a prize for participation in a global rain dance. If the loans have to fit in a sacred climate box, countries end up designing a show-case grid instead of the grid they need. How many people died of cold or hunger who could have been saved if the World Bank helped them build a coal fired power plant instead of a wind farm or a gender equity conference? World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45% of lending resources to climate change projectsReuters WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) – The World Bank Group said on Monday it will “retire” its previous goal to devote 45% of its annual lending resources to projects with climate co-benefits, but extend its longstanding Climate Change Action Plan that was due to expire on Tuesday.
The development lender, which had been under pressure from the Trump administration to abandon the climate lending target adopted during the Biden administration in 2023, said in a statement it would complete a shift to focusing on lending outcomes rather than input goals.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in 2025 had ordered the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to return to their core missions of development and financial stability, arguing they had strayed too far into climate, gender and other areas opposed by the Trump administration. In April, he said the bank’s “myopic” focus on climate financing targets had to go. It’s Trump versus The Blob: Executive directors including France and 18 other shareholding countries had signed a letter last October endorsing the bank’s continued work on climate change, but the largest shareholder, the United States, declined to sign, along with executive directors representing Russia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, while India and Japan abstained. It’s unusual enough for Politico to use the words Trump and wins, in the same sentence. Trump wins climate battle at the World BankBy Arianna Skibel, Politico Eliminating the spending target marks a victory for President Donald Trump, whose administration has described it as “distortionary” and “nonsensical.” As its largest shareholder, the United States holds sway over World Bank decisions. And the administration spent months pressuring it to drop the climate finance target, which U.S. officials said must go despite other countries indicating their support. Hallelujah. Every cent that goes to The Blob makes it stronger. The money buys experts, press releases, lawfare, and a dependent cheer squad. h/t Another Ian UPDATE: To appreciate just how awful the World Bank is — see them brag that they have “not made any coal investments for over a decade”. They have deprived the poor in the third world from getting access to cheap electricity. They stopped investing in upstream oil and gas in 2019. Meanwhile they are the “biggest multilateral funder” of climate investments in developing countries, which means, presumably giving unreliable power to people who desperately need real electricity, while they pump money to China to make more useless solar panels and wind towers. h/t David Maddison. Mr. Trump brings the World Bank to heel, — Ruairi
July 2nd, 2026 | Tags: Blob (The), The Blob, World Bank | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Comments (30)Bafflement?! Germany, a global leader in renewables but has one of the highest EU electricity prices Germany had nuclear power for 66 years | Kühltürme AKW in Phillipsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany By Fischer.H By Jo Nova If renewables are expensive, it’s volatile coal’s fault!How can it be? Germany has all that free wind and solar power but the price of electricity is the second highest in Europe. Apparently a nation with 45% of its generation from wind and solar is still “tied to volatile fossil fuel”. This is like a hostage situation, it’s so cruel?! EuroNews is spinning a fairy tale at 100 miles an hour. Germany is a leader in renewables, so why does it have one of the highest EU electricity prices?Germany generated more electricity from solar and wind in 2025 than any other EU country – but its prices remain tied to volatile fossil fuels.
German households pay around a third more for electricity than the EU average, despite the country’s impressive efforts to ditch fossil fuels. According to energy think tank Ember, Germany is one of the “global leaders” for wind and solar energy deployment, with 59 per cent of its electricity coming from clean sources in 2025. Since the introduction of its landmark renewable energy law (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz) in 2000, the country’s share of generation from wind and solar alone has skyrocketed from less than two per cent to almost 45 per cent last year. At the same time, coal – which is often described as the ‘dirtiest’ form of energy – fell from supplying more than half of Germany’s electricity to just 21 per cent. Using Eurostat data on electricity prices for the second half of 2025, 1KOMMA5° calculates that the EU average comes out at €0.29 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) including taxes and levies – but in Germany, households pay an average of €0.39/kWh.
The stark truth: The system costs are awfulA wind and solar grid is really two grids for the price of … two grids. One grid helps impress your shallow academic friends at dinner, while the other grid (the reliable one) could run all the time, but has to sit around waiting for the first grid to fail, which it does often, and then it swings in to gear to save the day. Neither grid is running efficiently, the unreliable one forces the reliable one to stop and start. So we get the worst of all worlds and a big electricity bill. Wind and solar power are only cheap if you don’t mind blackouts or shutting down factories and destroying your manufacturing base (BASF, Volkswagen, anyone?)
EuroNews delivers the bad news: €500 a family wasted on a weather shifting projectFor a typical single household (consuming 1,500 kWh), Germany’s high electricity prices mean households will be paying around €150 per year compared to the EU average – or an additional €500 for a family with a 5,000 kWh electricity consumption. The one thing wind and solar can’t buy — FlexibilityWhy does Germany waste clean energy?But as Jannik Schall, co-founder of 1KOMMA5°, points out: “Germany does not have too much cheap wind and solar power, but too little flexibility in the system.” Last year, Germany spent €435 billion euros on renewable energy curtailment. This involves intentionally shutting down electricity production in areas of oversupply and ramping up supply elsewhere. System costs get you every timeUnreliable generators need a massive oversupply of generation, frequency stability, transmission lines, back up batteries, new market arrangements, payments for curtailment of the oversupply of generators, and then you have to throw away all the generators after 20 to 25 years, bury them in a big hole and start again. Crazy people thought two grids would be cheaper than one.  View of the Hunger Stone on the Elbe in Děčín. The stone marks the low water levels of the Elbe with different dates. By Jo Nova Using United Nations Science TM — who can deny that the megadrought of 1540 was a man-made creation? Freakish weather was the new norm. The 1530s was described as one of the driest decades of the last 500 years. Bushfires raged, cattle starved, rivers dried up, and people died of dysentery. The hunger stones appeared on the bottom of the Elbe River (again). The Rhine dried up in parts so people could walk across. In 1535 one drought caused a famine so bad that in Transylvania dead bodies “littered the roads” and men and women wandered the streets, mad with hunger, eating cats, dogs and supposedly even other people. Religious leaders called it “end times” — other leaders searched for scapegoats. Those in charge started looking for secret symbols of organized arsonists they could blame for the fires. Water was so scare that some towns banned laundering of clothes. Apparently “everything stank”. And all this was in the midst of the Little Ice Age and with no coal plants in sight for another 300 years. The 1540 event is famous with climate scientists, not that they mention it much, possibly because it was so awful and they can’t blame CO2. At least one expert in The Smithsonian suggests that people may have forgotten the worst drought in 500 years because the weather in the next fifty years got even more horrid as things got colder. On the plus side, they invented a new Spätlese style of sweet wine in 1540 because the fruit dried on the vine and they waited for more rain before harvesting it. Apparently it was so delicious people drank “like pigs” and lay in the gutters. The 1540 megadrought brought mass suffering to the continentThe Smithsonian Occurring during a stretch of unusually warm summers in the midst of Europe’s “Little Ice Age,” a period of global cooling and extreme weather that affected the continent between the 14th and 19th centuries, the 1540 drought’s heat was so extreme that even state-of-the-art climate models could not predict it when fed nearly 1,200 years of climate data. n a 2014 paper that calls the drought a “worst case,” Pfister and his colleagues showed that rainfall was down by as much as 80 percent in some regions. Rivers like the Rhine, Elbe and Seine dried up to the point that people could wade across them on foot. The Thames was so low that the sea flowed inland and reversed the river’s direction. Like today, receding waters revealed lost treasures from previous generations. Chroniclers marveled when, on the shores of the shrinking Lake Constance, a woman named Anna Schmid came across 900 silver coins from the time of Emperor Augustus. Away from the water, there was little silver lining. Farmers’ fields became so dry that giant cracks deep enough to swallow people’s legs appeared in the soil. That dried-up earth reflected even more heat into the atmosphere, feeding an unbearable heatwave that the Protestant reformer Martin Luther interpreted as a sign of the end times. Officials ordered clergy in Germany, Italy and England to beg God for forgiveness and pray for the deliverance of rain. The extreme heat meant that by the usual harvest time, grapes in Germany and France had dried almost to raisins. The resulting “late harvest,” or Spätlese, wine was deliciously sweet. Food was in similarly short supply. With nowhere to pasture, cattle died of heat stroke and hunger, decimating Europe’s dairy supply. As if famine wasn’t enough, Europeans were also chased from their homes by forest and structural fires—the most in any peacetime year since at least 1000 C.E. One blaze reduced the entire German town of Einbeck “to ashes in a matter of hours,” causing as many as 500 deaths, wrote Pfister in 2017. With tens of thousands left unhoused, unemployed and often diseased, local leaders quickly gave in to paranoia to explain the calamities. Authorities searched for the alleged secret symbols of mordbrenner, or organized arsonists, whom they blamed for setting fires. Lest we forget… Europe has always had extreme weather.
In 1540, a wave of such heat, — Ruairi Related posts:
Photo caption: The oldest legible inscription dates from 1616. Older inscriptions (1417, 1473) were rubbed off over time by ships at anchor. The stone is also inscribed with the saying “Girl, do not cry and do not complain, when it is dry, spray the field”. This saying was probably made in 1938 by the pump manufacturer Frantisek Sigmund. The saying was based on the older saying “If you see me, then cry”. The Deciner Hungerstein is one of the oldest hydrological monuments on the Elbe. The Tyrš Bridge and Shepherd’s Wall can be seen in the background.
June 30th, 2026 | Tags: Drought, Europe, Heatwaves | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Comments (65)
By Jo Nova The apocalypse has arrived — the worst ever heatwave means 1,000 schools were closed as temperatures “soared” to 36 degrees C in the UK. The Met Office has issued a red “risk to life” report.The solution to this, obviously, is to go gangbusters drilling for gas in the North Sea so that Britons can put air conditioners in every home and school, (and also afford to run them.) Only 3% of British homes have air conditioning. Unfortunately the Net Zero Zealots in some town councils have been doing their own version of “Net Zero” where they badger homeowners to take their air conditioning down. The Telegraph reported that some councilors have ordered homeowners to tear out air-conditioners and open their windows instead. Air conditioning torn from homes under net zero clampdownClimate change regulations prioritised despite soaring temperatures In one of a string of cases uncovered by The Telegraph, a resident living in North London was forced to “permanently remove” two air-con units from the back of their home. Planning inspectors working for Camden council said there was “no justification” for the air-con units and that they failed to comply with the local authority’s so-called “cooling hierarchy”. In an appeal, the resident was told to open the windows and balcony doors of their first-floor flat to ventilate the property “by natural means”. Their concerns about security were dismissed, with inspectors saying the risk was not “as great as those associated with ground floor windows” and that the windows could be shut at night. The UK government, by the way, responded to the social media outrage by declaring that there were no such rules, and it was flat out incorrect, but people should speak to their council “just in case” and they are reviewing the legislation, which suggests the social media outrage might be justified but the government dont’ want to admit things are that stupid. The Guardian discovers a new level of inanity and word-slop:What is interesting here is how inaccurate the words are. Almost like they are trying to gas-light the audience: With the country in the grip of the worst heatwave ever recorded in western Europe – a direct result of global heating – the chair of parliament’s environmental audit committee warned ministers of the urgent threat and said the UK was falling “far short of what is needed”. What is this global heating? Are they trying to say “climate change” and missed? Flossie Boyd, of Global Witness, said: “It’s frightening to think of teachers and pupils trying to work and learn in swelteringly hot classrooms. This heatwave is a reminder of why we need climate adaptation now – to cool down our schools, and keep children safe. Frankly, it’s amazing Australian children were not vaporized every summer in the first 150 years here without air conditioning. We could have lost the first five generations. Oh wait, Flossie didn’t mean using air conditioning to cool children, she meant renewables. She wants to cool the kids with solar panels now, then wait 100 years for them to work: “Investment in climate-friendly cooling measures, renewables that don’t heat our planet, and shade for our playgrounds, is vital. These measures should be funded by taxing the fossil fuel polluters who drove this extreme heat crisis.” She calls this “climate adaption”, but until five minutes ago it was called climate mitigation. Nothing they are saying makes even the slightest sense. New Scientist is just barking mad:Michael Le Page is terrified: I’m finding the heatwave hitting Europe really scary. It’s bad enough in itself, with many records being broken, especially for the higher nighttime temperatures that make it so much harder to cope. But I just keep thinking, “If it’s like this now, what’s it going to be like in 10, 20 or 30 years’ time?” The answer, of course, is hotter and hotter and hotter. In the UK, national weather service the Met Office has just warned that, by 2056, there could be nine days in a row with temperatures above 40°C (104°F), with some places hitting 45°C (113°F). In just 30 years! I’ve seen at least one piece asking “is this the new normal?” about the current heatwave, but we’re never going to have normal in our lifetimes again – just ever more extreme heat. It must be hard being so much smarter than millions of people.
 https://anero.id/energy/2026/june/21 By Jo Nova The high pressure cell that burned the electricity billWind power suffered a crippling failure in South Australia. It was providing 2 Gigawatts, or 100% of the state’s power on Friday June 19th, but by Sunday, the High had arrived and wind generation had collapsed to 0%. Worse, it stayed near there for the next three days. The big beautiful batteries failed on the first day and prices took off accordingly. Only half the batteries were still there in the first big price spike of the first day, but on Sunday night and Monday morning, when prices hit $20,000 per megawatt-hour, they had nothing left to offer. Paul McArdle calculates that the four day wind drought in South Australia was the worst since at least 2019. We might wonder if there were worse ones in the naughies or the 1990s, but back then no one gave a toss. There were no price spikes on windless days when the nation ran on coal power.
 https://anero.id/energy/2026/june Staff at RenewEconomy got excited on the first day of the wind drought, talking about how the batteries ran out by the early evening and the prices spiked after that. Apparently this meant that the state needed even more batteries, and urgently! But after the wind drought went on for another three days, they didn’t say a thing. It turns out the state needs five or ten times as many batteries as it has, and bezillions of dollars. Big batteries caught short as worst wind drought in two years sends prices through the roofBy Sophie Vorrath, RenewEconomy, Monday June 22, 2026 Australia’s main grid chalked up its worst one-day wind drought in more than two years over the weekend, causing a series of price spikes in South Australia and highlighting the urgent need for more battery storage in the state with the highest penetration of renewables. “The volatility didn’t stop there. Elevated prices persisted overnight, and this morning delivered another period of $20,000 [per megawatt-hour] prices in SA.” As OptiGrid explains it, many of the state’s batteries discharged heavily through Sunday afternoon and early evening and, as batteries across the state ran low on charge, several dispatch intervals cleared above $3,000/MWh, with prices peaking above $20,000/MWh. “Around half managed to catch the first extreme price interval,” says OptiGrid, “but far fewer were able to discharge in the later spikes. A couple of batteries were even charging through dispatch intervals above $10,000/MWh. “By [Monday] morning, many batteries still had limited energy available after the overnight price event. Despite another period of $20k prices, relatively little battery capacity was able to respond.” Renewables fans still don’t understand the free market (by definition, almost). “Obviously, no wind meant gas generators had a field day,” David Leitch writes in his own LinkedIn post on the pricing event. “I guess they needed it. There have been so many posts about the decline in gas generation. Gas wouldn’t be having a field day if there were enough gas generators to compete with, would they? The problem is any grid dominated by random generators is either going to have to have huge generation oversupply to cover the worst days of the year, or they’re going to have huge price spikes. If they have a huge oversupply and those generators can only earn money on a few days a year, they’re going to have to charge like a Space X IPO on the days they’re needed. There is no way out of this. Intermittent generators are never going to cheaper or better unless we decide blackouts are OK. “Batteries in South Australia are paying $250/MWh to recharge and on this day ultimately did little to keep prices down.” So on the first whole day of the wind drought the batteries were already flat, and had to pay $250/ MWh to recharge. Even after the bonfire on Sunday Monday, things were not looking all that healthy on Wednesday and Thursday either. That’s a lot of red price spikes in the $300 – $500/MWh zone hour after hour.  AEMO Despatch June 25 https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem Looking at the average daily prices in South Australia, the state was already in deep trouble on Saturday the 20th. Prices for the entire 24 hour period averaged $469/ MWh. On Sunday they blistered in at $1,165 per megawatt all day long. Paul McArdle at WattClarity looks closely at the bidding behaviour wonders if the “goose was already cooked” by lunchtime Sunday.
June 26th, 2026 | Tags: Renewable Energy, SA (South Australia), Wind Power | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Comments (68)
Here we go again — the UN will try again in October to get its own income stream. The UN bureaucrats don’t want to go begging for cash among difficult right wing populist leaders, they want their own money. So, yet again, they’re proposing some form of carbon tax on ships and planes, supposedly to save the world from beachy weather. But we all know that the main purpose is to line the pockets of The Blob. If they succeed, they will just ask for more. There’s no accountability. No limits. Just an infinite array of ways to “help us” by taking our money. Thanks to Climate Depot for the link. The UN’s plan to levy taxes on global trade is a sinister power grabBy Brenda Shaffer, The Telegraph International energy and climate policies stand at the centre of one of the most defining political issues of our time: the expanding power of unelected institutions such as the United Nations in the lives of people in democratic societies. Two UN agencies – the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) – plan to tax global shipping and aviation for their greenhouse gas emissions. This would mark the first time an unelected institution has levied taxes on major sectors of global economic activity. The planned levies would expand the power and budgets of these agencies with no democratic accountability. If implemented, the UN agency levies will raise global shipping and aviation costs, adding to inflation worldwide. Shipping produces just around 2 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet a UN tax on it would add costs to virtually every traded good. Shipping carries more than 80 per cent of global trade, a share expected to grow. Civil aviation accounts for approximately 2.5 per cent of global emissions. The planned carbon offset requirement would add further costs to international flights. The IMO hopes that airlines will be purchasing carbon offsets from January next year and it expects to rake in between $11 billion and $13 billion US. As Brenda Shaffer points out, only the rich (stupid) west will pay this fee. It will offer another competitive advantage to China. Worse, it will feed the Blob. Every dollar fed into the machine is more money the UN can use for soft propaganda, and compliant modeling to sell their horror stories. It’s more money to reward their acolytes with junkets to Brazil or Azerbaijan to keep them loyal. The UN should be disbanded for even suggesting they want taxation without representation. Enough!
By Jo Nova Here’s a spooky graph of annual hours of sunshine on Krakow, in Poland. Hours of sunshine have been rising since 1980 — much like temperatures. It’s almost like CO2 has been irrelevant all along. Thanks to Kenneth Richard at NoTricksZone. He writes that cloud cover changes are far more influential than man made CO2 is. The clouds have cleared over the last 46 years with the people of Krakow enjoying 500 more hours of sunlight each year and about 2.3°C of warming. The research team, Marsz et al., 2025, estimate that radiative forcing by CO2 explained only 3.6% of the variance of temperatures, while changes in sunshine hours explained a whopping 58%. Look at this graph~! What if, all around the world, the clouds cleared in the last 40 years which let in more sunlight, and warmed the world, and all the carbon obessessed models were barking up the wrong tree. And the clouds in turn, were controlled by something like phytoplankton releasing cloud seeding particles, magnetic field changes, or jet streams shifting? Kenneth Richard noticed another paper about Nigeria that reported a similar trend. And another in Brazil that showed that most regions also had less cloud cover now than they used to have.  In most regions of Brazil, sunshine hours are increasing REFERENCESBudnukaeku (2026) Temporal Variability of Sunshine Duration and Cloud Cover over Nigeria from 1970 to 2022, Paradigm Academic Press, ISSN 2788-7030 MAR. 2026 VOL.5,NO. Gava (2026) Sunshine Duration in Brazil From Meteosat (1983–2020): Climatology, Variability and Long- Term Trends, International Journal of Climatology, Marsz et al (2025) The Role of Increased Sunshine in Shaping Air Temperature rise in Krakow. Quastetiones Geographicaue, 44(3), 2025. |
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