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By Jo Nova The Democrats needed a reason to dump their placeholder candidate for 2024, and that convention is coming soon. Obviously they want to drop in a new candidate at the last minute with just enough time to ride home on the honeymoon glow. Debates are not usually held before the conventions. They were always going to throw Biden under the bus, but this way they stop him being the lame duck for as long as possible while they protect their real candidate from scrutiny. Republicans counting chickens at this point are far too relaxed. Flag: Clément Bardot
9.9 out of 10 based on 125 ratings By Jo Nova Sixty percent of all human CO2 emissions have been emitted since 1985 but today the corals are healthier than ever In 1985 humans were emitting only 19.6 billion tons of CO2 each year, and now we emit 37 billion tons. In the meantime AIMS have been dragging divers thousands of kilometers over the reefs to inspect the coral cover. These are the most detailed underwater surveys on the largest reef system in the world, and they show that far from being bleached to hell, the corals are more abundant than we have ever seen them. As Peter Ridd points out, when the reef was doing badly, AIMS was happy to combine the data on the whole reef, so we could lament its demise. But lately AIMS splits it into separate sections and if Peter Ridd didn’t check the numbers, who would know it was a record across the full 2,300 kilometer length of the reef? And that may be exactly the point. As Ridd reminds us, in 2012 the AIMS team predicted the coral cover in the central and southern regions would decline to 5 – 10 percent cover by 2022. Instead the whole reef is […] June 29th, 2024 | Tags: Corals, Great Barrier Reef | Category: Global Warming, Marine Life, Oceans |  Print This Post | | 8.7 out of 10 based on 10 ratings By Jo Nova A little tiny delated backdown from extreme climate hype begins In 2018, a study of aerial photos of 700 Pacific Islands showed that 89% were the same size or growing. This rather destroyed the idea that sea levels were swallowing small nations. The New York Times said nothing. Indeed, the only Pacific things shrinking were deserted sand drifts. No islands bigger than 10 hectares were getting smaller. Measured in square kilometers that’s “0.1”. Despite the media headlines and delegations from Kiribati and Tuvulu begging for money to hold back the tide, no islands with people living on them were shrinking. None, not one island in the Pacific big enough to matter, was disappearing. The largest 630 islands in the Pacific had not being touched by climate change for decades. In 2023 another study of 1,100 islands came to the same conclusion. To find that many islands they included things as small as one thousandth of a square kilometer — we’re talking about spits of sand 10 meters square. (There are whales larger than that.) The Kench team studied islands in the Indian Ocean too. In one case, they sliced, diced and drilled through one poor island […] June 28th, 2024 | Tags: Corruption (Media), Sea Level | Category: FakeNews, Lies-by-Omission, Media-matters, Oceans | Print This Post | | 10 out of 10 based on 16 ratings By Jo Nova The evil shipping smoke was shielding us from global warming… You’ll never guess but it’s worse than we thought, and we are more to blame than we thought, kiss my government grant and pray to Gaia. Wouldn’t you know — shipping smoke was polluting the world, but the smoke also seeded clouds, which cooled the Earth, and undid some of the global warming we caused with CO2. Now that we are finally fixing up the dirty ships, oh no, we’ve accidentally unleashed the global warming which the ship smoke was hiding. So there is about to be another wave of global bad news. And for some reason we didn’t see it coming, even though we’ve known for decades that sulfate aerosols caused cooling (and we had those expert climate models all along, didn’t we?) Remember all those other times they said disaster would strike, and it didn’t, well, they were right. It would have happened, we just couldn’t see it because of the shipping pollution. See how perfect this is for The Climate Industrial Complex? We’ve been accidentally cooling the planet — and it’s about to stop By Shannon Osaka, Washington Post June 27th, 2024 | Tags: Aerosols, Shipping | Category: Atmosphere, Big-Government, Global Warming, Marine, Meteorology | 9 out of 10 based on 17 ratings MKinsey Survey By Jo Nova EV Mandated Revolution hits a hurdle The first buyers of EV’s were their most passionate fans, and presumably the people-most-likely to love them, and in the best position to use them. Yet, when surveyed, 49% of Australians who owned an EV and 46% in the US said they want to go back to an internal combustion engine for their next car. And the US and Australia are two nations where nearly everyone has a home-garage or driveway which makes EV ownership a bit easier (as long as the house doesn’t catch fire). Yet even with this cheaper and easier form of charging half the EV owners don’t want another one. McKinsey & Co surveyed 30,000 people in 15 countries and were said to be surprised at the result. Almost half of U.S. electric car owners want to switch back to gas-powered cars, survey shows Brad Matthews, The Washington Times Nearly half of American owners of electric cars want to switch back to traditional cars powered by internal combustion engines, according to a consumer survey released by McKinsey and Co. earlier this month. They had their reasons (boy did […] 8.4 out of 10 based on 16 ratings 9.4 out of 10 based on 22 ratings By Jo Nova It wasn’t supposed to be this cold and windless in Australia For some reason that no climate model can explain, Australia has run out of wind power three months in a row, which means we had to use more gas than expected. It’s also been colder than climate models predicted, despite global emissions being higher than ever in history. For some other reason that no rational adult can explain, the State of Victoria banned gas drilling for most of the last decade (to reduce the beachy-weather days in eighty years) and thus, as night follows day, the state is running out of gas. Ergo, predictably, it is also facing blackouts, cost blowouts and manufacturers dependent on gas are warning they may have to close down, or move to the US, where gas is still cheap. If only the climate models could predict temperatures and wind even a month in advance? The AEMO (our electricity grid manager) says Victoria will run out of gas before winter runs out of bite. Apparently Victorians are pulling twice as much gas out of their main storage as they can afford to at the moment. Not only does Victoria need the […] June 24th, 2024 | Tags: Gas, Victoria, Wind Power | Category: Australia, Cost, Global Warming, Renewable, Wind Power | Print This Post | | 9.1 out of 10 based on 36 ratings 8.7 out of 10 based on 22 ratings Greenland by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash By Jo Nova We may be living through some of the best weather in the last 100,000 years Kenneth Richard at NoTricksZone reports on a new paper showing the incredible extreme climate shifts of Greenland. During the depths of the last ice age Greenland temperatures would swing abruptly by 10 to 15 degrees Celsius (or 30F) in the space of 30 years. And we’re panicking at the moment about warming at 0.13°C per decade. These Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) events occurred 24 times from 120,000 years ago until 11,000 years ago. There were no humans living there at the time, as far as we know. The best estimate is that people first arrived in Greenland 4,500 years ago. As far as we know, it’s only Greenland that was gyrating wildly in temperature but the bare truth about climate scientists is the expert models can’t predict or explain any of this. So the seismic shifts came and went and went and came, and it had nothing to do with whether you turned the airconditioner on. If any poor sodding homo sapiens did manage to wash up on Greenland during the peaks 30 or 40,000 […] June 22nd, 2024 | Tags: Arctic, Greenland, Ice Age | Category: Europe, Holocene, Paleolithic | Print This Post | | 8.9 out of 10 based on 19 ratings By Jo Nova Global fossil fuel use hits a new record level in 2023 We spent $1.77 Trillion dollars on the clean energy transition last year, yet our fossil fuel use is still rising and our emissions are still increasing. The Energy Institute released their annual “Statistical Review of World Energy”. Total energy used in the world went up by 2% showing no sign of slowing down. For the first time, more coal was used in India than Europe and North America combined, a trend that is unlikely to stop soon. Despite there being more EVs on Earth than ever before, oil consumption was up 2% to above 100 million barrels for the first time. China overtook the US as the country with the largest oil refining capacity in the world last year at 18.5 million bpd. But the US overtook Qatar as the largest exporter of LNG. And global man-made emissions of carbon dioxide exceeded 40 gigatons for the first time. Imagine what a different place the world would be if we spent that money on something useful? Just a tenth of that might provide clean water and sanitation for the poorest of the poor and stop children […] June 21st, 2024 | Tags: Fossil Fuel | Category: Energy, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Renewable | Print This Post | | The shortest or longest day The point where the tilt peaks is at 6:50am EST Australia which is 4:50pm Thursday in New York.
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Clearing in the Snowy Mountains. Geoff Wise on Facebook, June 4th 2024 By Jo Nova It’s just another day on the job to save the world from man-made pollution In a quest to make the weather a bit nicer in 100 years these trees needed to be cut down now so we can connect up a big hydropower “battery” for holy solar and wind power. The towers will be 75m high and the path through the forest, 140m wide. When we ran off coal and gas power, we didn’t need pumped hydro. Fossil fuels protect the forests and hills of Australia. These photos were posted by Geoff Wise on the “High Country of Australia” show us what our clean green future will look like: “Here is where the power lines from the Snowy Hydro 2, at Lobs Hole, will cross the Tumut River ravine to go to the recently cleared site of the switching station in the Maragle State Forest, before heading north to feed into the National Power grid. The power lines will come from near the distant horizon. Look at the photos for more information. You can see this for yourself, as I was […] June 20th, 2024 | Tags: Pumped Hydro | Category: Australia, Big-Government, Global Warming, Hydroelectricity | Print This Post | | 8.9 out of 10 based on 16 ratings |
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