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By Jo Nova The war on the poor has become a war on surveillance cameras The ULEZ “Ultra Low Emission Scheme” in London will force drivers in outer London to pay a draconian £12.50 daily ULEZ fee when the scheme expands to their area from August 29th. But many of these people are poor and can’t afford to buy a new car or pay the fee. People who own diesel cars older than 2015 or petrol cars older than 2006 will have to pay the fees, so this will hurt the poorest people the most. Not surprisingly, this is very unpopular, as it has a large impact on some people’s lives. Tradies are wondering if they should give up their business, and older people are already being forced to sell their cars. Healthcare workers on late night shifts may end up trying to get home to outer suburbs in the dead of night on sparse bus routes. Everyone inside the ULEZ zone will also end up paying more to get tradies from outside the zone to come into it. This affects a lot of people, and perhaps as many as 850,000 vehicles registered in London are not compliant. The RAC […] August 19th, 2023 | Tags: UK, ULEZ (Ultra low emission zone) | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming, UK |  Print This Post | | 8.7 out of 10 based on 7 ratings By Jo Nova Maybe the world should talk about bioweapon research? The way Robert F Kennedy Jnr describes it to Tucker Carlson, it seems Anthony Fauci was not only a “director of health”, he was also a director of bioweapons. And he was the most well paid public servant in the country, thanks to a 68% raise to his salary — which came not from the health department but from the Pentagon. It’s an odd conflict of interest. Kennedy points out that to deploy an infectious bioweapon you need a pre-prepared successful vaccine so the infectious agent doesn’t make your side sick too. He claims there are something like 36,000 scientists involved in bioweapons research or gain-of-function work in countless labs in the US and overseas. “We have no idea how many there are”. Kennedy calls it the inverse of medicine, where life scientists are really “death scientists” who make diseases more deadly. In 2014 three bugs escaped from three different labs in high profile breaks, one was smallpox. “RFK: “Anthony Fauci got all the responsibility for bio-weapons development….[After three bugs escaped] in 2014, 300 scientists wrote to President Obama and said ‘you’ve gotta shut down Anthony Fauci, […] August 18th, 2023 | Tags: Bioweapon, Carlson (Tucker), R.F.Kennedy Jnr | Category: Health, Microbiology, USA | Print This Post | | 9.1 out of 10 based on 14 ratings Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay By Jo Nova The Government is not afraid of misinformation, they are afraid you will speak the Truth Add your submission by August 20th Misinformation is easy to correct when you own a billion dollar news agency, most academics, institutions, expert committees and 25% of the economy. The really hard thing, even with all that power and money is to defend an absurd lie and stop people pointing it out. Like for example if you want to spend a trillion dollars of taxpayer money using power stations, cars and steak sandwiches to change the global weather. For that, you need the Ministry of Truth to force the falsity on the serfs. The best way to deal with misinformation is to speak better information. Let the court of public opinion decide. There is something profoundly arrogant about the assumption that 26 million brains are too stupid to figure out the truth when left to their collective free debate. The proposed Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) misinformation bill is truly the draft that Mao or the Politburo would have admired. Effectively if you are government “approved” (institutional, […] August 17th, 2023 | Tags: Free Speech | Category: Australia, Big-Government, Free Speech, Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.5 out of 10 based on 12 ratings By Jo Nova Any which way you look at global drought measures in the last 120 years this is not the CO2 doom scenario of the IPCC prophesies either in rainfall patterns or in water supplies. The graphs below show rainfall trends shifting slightly due to unknown forces and looking for all the world, like CO2 is irrelevant. Despite the scare campaigns about floods and droughts, and the threats of climate wars over dwindling rivers, there has been no trend in hydrological droughts since the Wright Brothers first flew a plane. Kenneth Richards at NoTricksZone reported on Shi et al, a paper which looked at trends from 1902 to 2014 in all nine climate zones of the world. The first graph shows a mixed bag of trends in Meteorological Droughts, none of which are obviously linked to human emissions of CO2. Remember, half of all human emissions since we crawled out of caves has been emitted after 1995. According to CDIAC fully 250,000 Mt of CO2 was emitted up to that year, then we have doubled that in the years since then. If CO2 was a planet transforming molecule, surely we’d see something in the last 25 years? The […] As David Maddison, Penguinite, MP, Andrew McRae, Konrad and others suggest: Don’t forget to put your submissions in opposing the latest proposed Australian Government censorship legislation. “New ACMA powers to combat misinformation and disinformation”. They don’t have to be long. But it closes on August 20th. Read Konrad’s submission here. 9.9 out of 10 based on 14 ratings By Jo Nova The plan: The hapless homeowners will buy the back up battery for the grid and install it in their garage. Sometimes they might drive it too. Instead of solar and wind investors paying for the storage they need to produce useful reliable electricity, the plan, apparently, is to force the people to buy electric cars then use their batteries to save the grid instead. When someone plugs their car in to charge, the grid or their house might draw electricity out instead. It’s called two-way-charging, bi-directional charging, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) or Vehicle-to-Home. There are moves to make this happen in California, Australia and Europe. There have already been 170 trials around the world costing millions of dollars to try to figure out how to do this. Clearly it’s a big agenda. Repeated charges and discharges must shorten the life of the battery, and possibly inconvenience car owners too if they get caught without the fuel in the tank. What if there is family emergency at 11pm? (Well, you can catch a cab.) As well as this, every EV added to the grid is like adding “3 to 20 new houses“. Energy losses with batteries are around 20% […] 9.1 out of 10 based on 11 ratings 7.9 out of 10 based on 26 ratings 8.2 out of 10 based on 25 ratings Photo by Toby Elliott on Unsplash By Jo Nova We need to know: Can We Stop Volcanoes with Solar Panels? Quick set up a summit. Give me a grant. Climate Change causes more rain (except when it causes more drought), and apparently the weight of “up to” four meters of monsoon rainfall can compress a crustal plate leading to earthquakes. Now, four meters of rain means a lot to a pitiful 1.8 meter homo sapiens, but it’s hard to believe a plate of rock 30 kilometers thick would care less or even notice. It’s all absurd. The whole article, written by a “Reader in Physical Geography” at Coventry Uni makes out the climate change is all around us, but unwittingly depends on the idea that the Sun is just a big torch shining on Earth, and not a raging nuclear magnetic dynamo 300,000 times bigger than the planet, blasting us with charged particles at a million miles an hour and with a magnetic field that stretches past Pluto. Poor Dr Blackett with his 20 years of university education was never taught about the Sun. He has a pretty graph pointing out some correlation between earthquakes and monsoons but […] August 12th, 2023 | Tags: Cult science, Earthquake, The Conversation, Volcano | Category: Academia, Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | 9.4 out of 10 based on 18 ratings By Jo Nova A second big Australian “Pumped Hydro” scheme is crashing on economic rocks… The Marinus Link cable was meant to spark a glorious renewables boom and make Tasmania “The Battery of the Nation”, instead it will cost more than a new advanced coal fired plant, provide no energy at all, and currently even the thought of it is causing chaos. New projects are on hold, factories can’t expand and Tasmania is held hostage to visions of an electricity grid designed to stop storms instead of generate energy. The Marinus Link is a 255km cable that was supposed to be the second interconnector from Tasmania to the mainland. In theory it would cost $3 billion and carry 1.5GW of electricity. But the costs have blown out to $5.5 billion and the State Premier is balking at the new bill. However, most of the new wind power projects in the state are awaiting the magic cable before they commit — without it, they can’t reach the real market, which is mainland Australia. But without them, the local grid doesn’t have enough surplus capacity to cover the lean times (or rather, without the cable, they can’t get access to more reliable […] August 11th, 2023 | Tags: Hydroelectricity, Interconnectors, TAS (Tasmania), Transmission lines | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.9 out of 10 based on 14 ratings By Jo Nova Whatever you do, don’t let the punters know the corals aren’t collapsing. Wise Hok Wai Lum Last year, the Great Barrier Reef had blockbuster levels of coral cover, and this year it’s the same, even though global carbon dioxide levels rose 1%, and China probably installed another 100 coal fired plants. The corals, apparently, don’t care. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) issued a press release, calling this repeat record a “pause”. “A pause in recent coral recovery across most of the Great Barrier Reef” — AIMS Last year only 3% of Australians knew the Great Barrier Reef was in record good health, and AIMS seemingly wants to keep it that way. If this survey showed the reef was in record poor cover for a second year, would they call it a pause in recent damage? The lies-by-omission are still lies. AIMS is deceiving the taxpayers who pay for AIMS.
AIMS It’s a disaster, again. How will scientists get research grants to manage a reef that looks after itself? Peter Ridd is scathing: “The fabulous condition of the reef demonstrates that the public has been systematically misled by many […] August 10th, 2023 | Tags: Corals, Great Barrier Reef | Category: Australia, Global Warming, Media-matters | Print This Post | | 8.7 out of 10 based on 18 ratings Siemens Gamesa By Jo Nova The end of the naive era of hope in Wind Power fairies Remember how they said wind energy would keep getting cheaper? Only a year ago academics were still writing papers about the “Moore’s Law” miraculous future of wind power. Only we appear to have already hit the point where bigger is not better. Two years ago the former head of Siemens bizarrely warned that “Wind power risks becoming too cheap” and Reuters, bizarrely, published it. Meanwhile production costs are rising for the offshore variety too, and Siemens is scrambling to delay deliveries, so it can fix problems first… The Washington Post, a big fan of the “Green transition”, puts in an admirable effort to make excuses for the bad luck of the wind industry — anything but admit that this failure may represent real mechanical limits to the collection of erratic, low density energy in the most hostile settings on Earth. These machines are so fragile they cannot just sit under their own weight motionless, less they get permanent brinelling damage to the bearings. And tiny micro-oscillations can create False Brinelling. Wind ‘Turbinegeddon’ Is a Troubling Climate Omen by Chris […] |
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