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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 (65)
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. By Jo Nova Coming over the event horizon — a project so bad it could break the nationSnowy 2.0, the pumped hydro “battery” is far worse than we thought, and we thought it would destroy lakes, rivers, farms, cheap electricity and national productivity. But it’s worse than that. Now it’s been infected with Victorian Union style contract bombs, which will spread to all the attached transmission tentacle projects, and blow out their budgets too. The government (us) is backing everything, guaranteeing profits for foreign companies and super sweet salary packages for union workers and the project is “too big to fail” and the debts promised for years to come. Imagine if you took witchcraft masquerading as science, hyped it with childish modeling, managed it with world class incompetence and mixed it with the worst union cartels, then locked it all into a 35 year contract. “Hey ho!” For foreign readers, the CFMEU is the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, which is being investigated for corruption that may have cost the Victorian You might wonder what union corruption has to do with bad science, but they all grow from the same self-serving pot. Bad science was used to justify Big Stupid Projects (like trying to use power stations to stop storms in 2100!). And Big Stupid Projects attract stupid people and greedy people. So we end up with stupid government managers that accept terrible deals from greedy unionists — deals that are so bad the government doesn’t even want to reveal the true cost because it’s too embarrassing. And none of the scientists want to speak up because their salaries depend on keeping the myth alive that renewables are cheap and worth pursuing. And thus Snowy 2.0 becomes the black hole that bends space and time in every direction. It consumes land, money, energy, Australian productivity and industrial relations. One trillion dollars is about $40,000 for every man, woman and child — wasted on a frivolous quest to make the weather nicer a hundred years from now. Let’s just ask Australian’s who wants to buy this? Snowy 2.0 union deal set to trigger $1 trillion network charge for AustraliansBy Robert Gottleibsen, The Australian The addition of the CFMEU locks in a $1 trillion network charge bill that will hit all power users. To escape the looming exorbitant network charges Australians who invested large sums in roof top solar and batteries will need to consider diesel generating back up even though that will increase the burden on everyone else. What was a $2 billion dollar project is now likely to cost $40 billion, but amped up the “union rules” the total extended budget is orbiting the GDP. But now that $40bn cost is set to explode because the project developers have signed an agreement with the CFMEU and linked unions to embrace very similar provisions to those planned for the Victorian Suburban Rail Link. Not only are there huge pay rises but effectively the CFMEU people will be joint managers of one of the most complex tunnelling projects ever attempted in Australia. Governance goes out the window. Snowy 2.0 is not just a pipe and a turbine, it’s a web of pylons and wires across thousands of miles: To transmit the electricity over these huge distances, around 2000 towers — often 60 to 70 metres high or almost the height of the Sydney Harbour Bridge pylons — must be erected on Australia’s prime farming land. That power then drives water up to a giant dam in the “high country”. So the “cost plus” horror contract will spread into huge industrial projects. The big bonanza win for the Union was to get the government to agree to cover the budget blowouts whenever unions “won” a better pay deal. This meant there was no cost to the company or the union in those decisions. And the government wouldn’t want to complain because as Gottleibsen says if people knew about much these things cost, “that would explode the “renewables are cheap” myth.” Gottleibsen estimates there is a trillion dollars in government liabilities “hidden” from official estimates. The total cost of transmission lines alone could be as much as $450 billion. He is astonished that things could get this bad: My appeal is to the ALP caucus. You will have to explain to your family what you did to boost power prices and the cost of living for at least 35 years. Worse still, you were so ashamed at what you were doing that you concealed it. The first clue that there is government unease about the “missing trillion” came from Finance Minister Katy Gallagher. In an interview with The Australian, she said it would be unsustainable for the government to indefinitely continue supercharged spending on the “net zero” transition. Snowy 2.0 also shows the industrial-relations danger. Once government-backed megaprojects become too big to fail, contractors and unions gain enormous leverage. If taxpayers or electricity consumers are ultimately on the hook, every delay, variation and wage condition can be rolled into the final bill. What began as an energy policy becomes an infrastructure disease. The political class promised Australians a clean, cheap, modern grid. What they are building instead is a debt-funded machine for turning public money into private guarantees, higher power bills, ruined farmland and permanent dependence on bureaucratic modelling.
June 23rd, 2026 | Tags: Pumped Hydro, Unions | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Comments (99)By Jo Nova Careful, your subsidies are showing…The more we make, the more we waste. The trend is clear and it’s so Soviet. Spring is the season with the most wasted renewable production, and each spring is more wasteful than the one before. There are two sorts of “curtailment” where the generator has to shut off production. Network curtailment happens when a a transmission line is already at capacity, or a line is down . But Economic Curtailment is rapidly becoming the big drain. It occurs when there was such a glut of power that prices went negative. Generators were producing something so useless they had to pay people to take it away. Investors flee at this point. This is hidden under jargon called “Offloading” which sounds a bit like 4-wheel driving with a lisp. I mean, they could have called it “toxic energy. From the AEMO Q4 report “During Q4 2025, total economic offloading of wind and grid-scale solar generation averaged 1,312 MW, the highest quarterly average on record (Figure 45). This exceeded the previous peak set in Q4 2024 by 653 MW (+99%). So nearly one fifth of all the electricity that solar panels produced was tossed in the bin. And about 15% of wind turbine capacity. In South Australia an extraordinary 59% of potential energy from solar was lost. In total, some 7.2 Terawatt hours of renewable electricity was thrown away last year, because it was made at the wrong time or in the wrong place. As Dan Lee describes it on WattClarity, ” 1 TWh is roughly equivalent to the entire production from Gladstone Power Station Unit 4 in 2025″ So we’re wasting about 7 turbine units… In the latest figures for the first quarter of 2026 the curtailment figures are back down again, but they are still higher than the same time last year. The inexorable rise of “curtailment” continues season by season. This is not the same as the “waste” of having spare gas or coal generators because they are despatchable, and wind and solar are not. Unlike most things, as we make more wind and solar power generators they wont get more efficient, not in a net production kind of way. REFERENCESSee also Reneweconomy
By Jo Nova One Nation is the centre right party the Liberals forgot to be*For Foreign readers, Pauline Hanson is the leader of One Nation, has been a politician here for 30 years, and has pointed out problems with mass immigration the whole time, and are a party of skeptics. They got about 5% of the vote in the election in May last year, but in a meteoric rise, they now poll 30%+ not only ahead of the conservative coalition here, but ahead of the Labour Party. The commentariat say that Pauline is a lightning rod for believers, but “she doesn’t have any solutions”. However in this day of Big-octopus-government, the best solution is when the government does nothing. Yesterday in the National Press Club Pauline Hanson laid out a textbook conservative policy platform on Net Zero: stop the subsidies, end the white elephants, don’t destroy our best agricultural land, and let the free market decide. And this was just the Net Zero policies. Hanson also wants to conserve our borders and our culture, and introduce Nuclear Energy. Hanson wants to kill off the Snowy Hydroelectricity scheme. (Well, Hallalujuh!) — “Let me make no apology: One Nation will end this renewable energy bribery — grants, tax incentives, concessional finance, even the government underwriting anything that sponsors the whole net zero hoax.” — One Nation is saying: put everything into the energy mix. Let everyone share the wealth that is under our feet. We are one of the richest resource nations in the world. I am saying: get ideology out of the way. — The Snowy Hydro 2.0 is nothing more than a black hole of debt for taxpayers. The Liberals left a vacuum for One Nation to fill. They didn’t have to do that. Hansen really twists the knife with the subsidies — this is the way to reach small businesses, farmers, and tradies. The bloke in the corner store is productive. Does he get subsidies? I speak to struggling farmers everywhere. Do they get subsidies? Does the young 25-year-old going out on his own, starting up a business, get subsidies? But no. Community batteries, solar banks, regional renewable projects — it’s impossible to keep track of all these taxpayer subsidies. The government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation provides tens of billions of dollars for renewable projects, of course at favourable rates. This is a rot. But this outfit, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, has received over $200 billion of taxpayers’ money. That is $200,000 million of taxpayer money. The source of much of our wealth is under our feet and should not be only for export. Pauline knows these problems are self-inflicted, and gets straight to the point: “Stop blaming the Middle East.” Her speech has hit a nerve. … Keep reading → By Jo Nova The handy all-purpose smoke bomb for any occasion is “climate change”Food prices are rising because we’ve mismanaged the economy and screwed up our energy supplies while we played doctor to the clouds. As sure as night follows day, we stopped digging for coal and oil and now it costs more to transport, process, refrigerate, package and store food. But don’t be fooled, the bigger underlying cause that the Blob doesn’t want you to notice is money. The inflation starts with the money supply. If we gave everyone a million dollars, the thing we most want would suddenly cost a million dollars more. As long as The Blob can borrow money into existence they can fund their friends and promise free homes and eternal youth to the voting massess. And the borrowers get to spend the money first, before the price rises. So since 2008, all the US dollars ever created going back to World War I, have been multiplied five fold. This is the money-base data today from the US St Louis Federal Reserve.  … Climate change (code for CO2) causes crops to grow and greenery to get greener. So articles like The Times magazine one at the top are just there to distract people. This is pure psychological manipulation — seeding the idea that prices are going up and that the solution is to pump your money into our renewable schemes. How Climate Change is Making Your Life More ExpensiveThe Times If you feel like things have been getting more expensive, you’re not imagining it. The average American household spent $15,400 more for basic necessities in 2025 than it did in 2019, according to research from the Common Sense Institute, a non-partisan research organization. That’s across a number of spending categories. On average, grocery costs increased 25.1%, while shelter and utilities costs increased 33.9%. There’s a number of explanations for the surge in prices—from pandemic induced supply chain issues, to tariffs, to wars in Ukraine and Iran. And suggestively post opinion polls…. Yet a significant number of Americans are also pointing to another factor: climate change. In a study released this week by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, 67% of American voters said they think global warming is affecting the cost of living in the United States, while 64% said it is affecting their own cost of living, pointing to increasing costs of home utility bills, groceries, and home insurance, among other things. The Blob depends on the fiat currency trick to fund their election promises, so they can buy the votes with the wealth they stole from your own purchasing power. The fiat currency is the engine that feeds greed and corruption.
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