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By Jo Nova We elect an Australian government but get the EU rules Just before Christmas the government quietly put out new emissions rules they know Australians won’t like. “Tis the season for dropping press release bombs. Australia will adopt ‘Euro 6’ fuel standard by late 2025 Jacob Greber, The Australian Financial Review Tough new petrol standards will be introduced at the end of 2025, potentially increasing the cost of fuel while expanding consumer access to leading-edge, mostly European, ultra-efficient vehicles. By forcing Australians to buy expensive, unreliable cars prone to exploding, the government will stop families going on holidays, burn down a few homes, and keep friends from visiting each other, unless the nation of petrol-heads keep driving their old cars and Utes, Cuba style. For all this pain, the new rules will “slash 18 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions” which is equivalent to taking 280,000 imaginary cars off the road, or cutting 0.15% of annual emissions from China. i.e. nothing. All Peter Dutton, the opposition leader in Australia needs to do to win the next election is to stand up for drivers in Australia. Apparently Australians need to import more EU cars […] 9.3 out of 10 based on 13 ratings By Jo Nova Australians are angry the BOM didn’t see the flooding rains coming Worse, we’re betting the nation on the BOM’s ability to predict the climate. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) tells Australians that record breaking extremes are getting worse because of our cars and our air-conditioners (that’s “The State of the Climate“). But when the BOM can’t predict record breaking rain a month in advance, or even the day before, we know the BOM doesn’t understand what drives the climate. Somehow the BOM expect Australians to spend trillions and rearrange their economy based on their fifty year prophesies, but not to mind when “this summer” goes right off the rails. Back in September the BOM issued its El Nino alert, and Australians were told it would be a hot and dry and to prepare for a summer of bushfires. Farmer sold their lambs, and adjusted harvest accordingly. This was the BOM solemn prediction in late October, for the very next month of rainfall Across most of Australia the odds were only 20-40% of getting average rain. Instead this is what happened: BOM And in December most of the country was predicted to have a fifty […] December 29th, 2023 | Tags: BOM, Predictions (that went wrong) | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | | 10 out of 10 based on 16 ratings Art by Syaifulptak By Jo Nova It’s too *bad* to be true We know it’s a cult or long-form advertising when every possible consequence is 100% bad, bad, bad, and for everyone, all the time. Climate change will cause more droughts, except when it rains, and that means more pollen (obviously?!). Even though summers will be longer, and spring will be earlier, and flowers will go extinct, the pollen will be more potent (whatever that is). More people will get asthma, and even though we don’t know what causes allergies, we know that it will get worse with climate change, whatever it is, because everything does. You too will be locked in your house, afraid to leave, unable to breathe, unless you get solar panels and an EV. This was Australian’s national news prime time story tonight on our public “news” service. Australians spent some part of 3 million dollars today on their ABC, where regional health reporter Steven Schubert asked no hard questions, did almost no research, and sought no alternative views. He just found an asthmatic trophy victim to use as a poster-girl for F.E.A.R. As the climate changes, researchers say our allergies will only get […] 9 out of 10 based on 9 ratings
Image by yongbo zhu from Pixabay By Jo Nova China must be wishing CO2 caused some damn warming Beijing this month has had the coldest December since they started measuring the cold in 1951. Obviously, this is because of climate change. Any day now newspapers will start to call this the tragic inevitable result of man-made climate change, reminding us of how we need to send money to renewables, and immediately, or we’ll face so much more of this. Or maybe journalists will forget how they use every freak warm event as free-advertising for the climate religion: Beijing breaks a seven-decade cold-weather record BEIJING, Dec 24 (Reuters) – China’s capital Beijing has broken its record for hours of sub-zero temperatures in December dating back to 1951, after a cold wave swept swathes of the country and brought blizzards in its wake, sending temperatures towards historic lows. As of Sunday, a weather observatory in Beijing had recorded more than 300 hours of below-freezing temperatures since Dec. 11, the most for the month since records began in 1951, according to state-backed Beijing Daily. Naturally cold snaps are due to natural causes like a polar vortex. […] December 27th, 2023 | Tags: China, Cooling & cold snaps | Category: China, Global Warming, Media-matters | Print This Post | | 8.6 out of 10 based on 10 ratings 7.4 out of 10 based on 22 ratings Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas, from inside Christmas Day here in Australia…
9.9 out of 10 based on 74 ratings 8.9 out of 10 based on 15 ratings Bob Brown’s Foundation protests at the Robbins Island Wind Farm By Jo Nova Every day the Greens sound more like Skeptics Finally, the wheel turns and the Greens start to realize their bedfellows might be the environmental wreckers and industrial profiteers that they thought they were working against. Finally there is a point where the price of “climate action” can be too damn high. And somehow, the ends does not always justify the means. Make no mistake, Bob Brown was the face of the Greens in Australia for decades. He was in politics for 30 years, and Leader of the Australian Greens. He was Mr Green himself on the Australian scene. Four years ago he surprised a few people when he spoke out against the idea of putting the largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere on remote Robbins Island off NorthWest Tasmania because it would spoil the view and kill birds — something climate skeptics have been saying for years and about nearly every industrial wind park. Now he’s going further and saying the “free for all” with wind farms must stop. He’s even using the ugly term “profiteers” to describe the Tasmanian government setting up a […] December 23rd, 2023 | Tags: Brown (Bob), TAS (Tasmania), Wind Power | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.7 out of 10 based on 18 ratings For a few days new posts will appear below this one. Thank you to all who are helping! Thank you to everyone who helps pay the bills around here By Jo Nova It’s a dangerous moment in history across the West, but as those in the gulags of 1953 would surely have said, we still have so much to work with. Our Democracies might be unraveling, but the Oligarch’s gambits are also coming undone. Investors are fleeing from wind, solar and exploding EVs. Voters are tossing out bad governments. And more than half the population knows that climate science is a religion. We are the majority, but they don’t want you to know. It’s been 15 years here on this blog, somehow, outside the system, living off goodwill and donations, debating the U.N. and trillion dollar cartels. Real freedom is writing with no corporate sponsor, and no major advertiser. There’s no billionaire publisher to toss me off, no editor to boss me around, and no committee to answer to. The government can’t take away a grant it never gave me, and the cowards of Cancel Culture can’t scare away advertisers. I am not dependent on any institution, but […] 9.6 out of 10 based on 11 ratings Image by Chris Feser By Jo Nova The Chinese Communist Party just wants to save the Earth, right? Even though China is the largest single user of fossil fuels on Earth, for some reason The Energy Foundation China — an NGO dedicated to worrying about carbon emissions — spent nearly $4 million working on reducing US emissions instead of Sino ones. They also spent some undisclosed amount helping the Grantham Research Institute in London last year. So we have donors in a developing country giving generously to the US and UK because the rich first world is too poor to fund their own environmental philanthropy groups, right? The Energy Foundation China (EFC) generously wants to help the US phase out coal and electrify their cars. But that’s just the nice political power that the CCP is (the kind that also builds fortified islands in shipping lanes): CCP-Tied Group is Quietly Fueling US-Based Climate Initiatives: Tax Filings By Thomas Catenacci , Joe Schoffstall Fox News A climate-focused nonprofit with significant operations in Beijing has wired millions of dollars to fund climate initiatives and environmental groups in the U.S., according to tax filings first obtained […] 8.8 out of 10 based on 11 ratings Bison in Montana. USFWS Flickr By Jo Nova Someone just realized that humans emit methane (like cows, camels, mammals, and ancient herds of bison). The new study shows that humans are generating methane, just like the awful Planet Wrecking Cows. But the truth is that all mammals have probably always produced some methane, and that includes the massive herds of herbivores that used to roam the Earth, when the climate was “perfect”. The new paper in PLOS One assessed 104 people and found 31% were methane producers like the cows. They calculated the 67 million homo sapiens in the United Kingdom increase the national methane and N2O emissions by as much as… golly, 0.05 – 0.1%. (Despite this trivial and predictable outcome, somehow, they had no trouble getting grants or getting published for studying methane-angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin). The main thing we learn from this paper is how easy it is to get money to study climate inanities compared to how hard it is to get grants to audit the IPCC or investigate the sun’s role in climate change. If belches of methane can cause a climate crisis, how, we marvel, did the planet not boil away when 30 million bison roamed […] 9.8 out of 10 based on 11 ratings |
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