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8.2 out of 10 based on 24 ratings By Jo Nova The whole world is waiting to see who wins the US Election The annual UN junket-fest for climate troughers — called COP 29 — starts the week after the US election. But this year things are running behind schedule as countries sit on their hands. The oceans are boiling, the clock of doom is five seconds from midnight, and “renewables are cheap”, but if the largest economy in the world loses enthusiasm, so does everyone else. For some reason, the same cannot be said about the second, fourth and fifth largest economies. No wonder they are so afraid of him. Trump stalks global climate talks as COP29 draws near By Nick Perry, The Japan Times Paris – The prospect of Donald Trump returning as president is hanging over crucial U.N.-sponsored climate negotiations, with countries “holding back” their positions until they know who sits in the White House. This year’s negotiations hope to increase money for poorer countries to handle climate change, but some governments have not proposed a concrete dollar figure, wary of committing too soon. “Everybody is holding back until they know who gets elected,” said Mohamed […] September 17th, 2024 | Tags: Elections, Space-weather, Trump (Donald) | Category: Global Warming, USA |  Print This Post | | 9.3 out of 10 based on 15 ratings 9.2 out of 10 based on 28 ratings 8.5 out of 10 based on 28 ratings By Jo Nova Every scientific curiosity becomes a climate prayer A year ago, within an hour, 120 seismometers all over the world started to record a freakish shake every 90 seconds like a metronome. People watching the waves were baffled. And even more so that it didn’t stop within a few minutes but continued on all day and night, eventually ringing out for nine days. It turned out to be a landslide in an oddly shaped fjord in Eastern Greenland. A 1.2 kilometre mountain of rock and ice had collapsed, sending a 110m wall of water 10 kilometers across the gorge to smash 200 metres up the other side of the fjord. The water then came back down and the return wave apparently kept slopping back and forward for nine days. Spare a thought for the fish. Dickson Fjord before (left) and after (right) the landslide. From Scientific American andSøren Rysgaard (left); Danish Army (right) Thus “10,000 swimming pools” worth of repeating tsunamis keep rattling seismic detectors for days and then kept 68 scientists busy for a year figuring out what it was. Predictably, they say, it was caused by climate change, because rock slides and ice collapses […] September 14th, 2024 | Tags: Greenland, Hyperbole, Media bias | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.3 out of 10 based on 18 ratings By Jo Nova Finally, 15 years and a trillion dollars too late, George Monbiot says what skeptics have been saying all along. Nearly every single carbon reduction scheme is a useless make-work machination that creates the illusion that the government is doing something. He calls it “perceptionware”. A new paper was released in Science pointing out that in the last 25 years, barely 4% of climate policies in 41 countries have made any real difference. And by “real difference” we mean reducing a useful fertilizer, so it’s a good thing that 96% of the ploys failed, but a tragedy that a thousand billion dollars was stolen from decent people. In any case, finally Monbiot sees the tip of the iceberg of grift and graft, but doesn’t realize his own role in it, doesn’t realize the same failures of journalists like him also failed the science world where 96% of papers have achieved nothing they set out to do as well — like predicting the climate. Climate science has been spinning its wheels, creating perceptionware and failing to figure out the climate for fifty years, but George hasn’t noticed. Monbiot hasn’t even taken the obvious leap: Where were the Greens, […] September 13th, 2024 | Tags: Biofuel, Guardian (The), Media bias, Monbiot (George) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 9.9 out of 10 based on 15 ratings By Jo Nova Cold is the Catastrophe A hotter world might not be so horrible. Back in the early Holocene, 10,000 years ago, rivers flowed in the middle of the Sahara desert, and they were filled with fish. The photo above is what remains of Takarkori Lake today. If only climate change could bring back the fish? While we were distracted in 2020, researchers published a paper about an trove of bones and body parts they had dug out of a cave in Southwest Libya, which is roughly the middle of the Sahara today. Surprisingly they found 17,551 bones, and even more surprisingly, 80% of them were from fish. The people who dined there were catching tilapia and clariid catfish, and sometimes the odd mud turtle, mollusc and a crocodile or two. The lake (pictured above) is about 6 kilometers from the cave (below), and all the bones appear to be human refuse. It’s kind of the ultimate archaeological FOGO dump. Somehow, this restaurant that stayed open for 6,000 years left behind layer after layer of undisturbed dining history. Gradually, over thousands of years the diners ate less fish, and more beef, goat and mutton. Amazingly, 17,000 bits of […] September 12th, 2024 | Tags: Desert, Evidence, Fish, Holocene, Sahara | Category: Biology, Geology, Global Warming, Holocene | Print This Post | | Sorry. Temporal rift, fixed. But not explained. 9.3 out of 10 based on 12 ratings Image by Erik Nikolai Halsteinrud from Pixabay By Jo Nova The silence is deafening Matt Ridley wrote a whole book about the Covid lab leak, and now marvels that what was once an unthinkable conspiracy is now quietly accepted by two thirds of the population, but still exists under a cone of silence. The Wuhan Lab Leak was “worse than a thousand Bhopals” he points out, but the Royal Society said it wasn’t a suitable topic for discussion. It’s as if the deaths of millions, the economic chaos and the threat of bioweapons is a bore. The World Health Organization never mentions it. The Academy of Medical Sciences said it was too controversial. Ridley was invited to debate the issue but no one would take the other side. He was invited to write a paper for a prestigious journal with a professor at Oxford. After they wrote a paper with hundreds of references, the editors rejected it out of hand, telling him that there was no evidence of people doing gain-of-function experiments in Wuhan, even though the Institute of Virology has published papers for six years detailing how they did exactly that. Ridley was invited to debate at […] September 11th, 2024 | Tags: Bioweapon, China, Coronavirus | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8 out of 10 based on 10 ratings By Jo Nova Greenpeace USA say it may be bankrupted by a pipeline billionaire Even though the evidence for a climate catastrophe is “overwhelming” and they have the media licking their shoes, Greenpeace have somehow failed to persuade the voters to share their outrage and cancel the pipelines that carry “fossil” fuels. So they moved to lawfare and allegedly a slow sabotage through dubious protests that stopped companies from carrying out legal business activity. Now finally, after years of battling, one pipeline billionaire is said to be “within spitting distance” of winning a $300 million dollar case against them. His company is called Energy Transfer. In 2016, Greenpeace and some native American tribal groups and activists camped for months in a corner of North Dakota to stop the crude oil pipeline his company was building. The case is set for trial in February in North Dakota. Obviously the outcome is not known, but everyone seems to be acting as if they do know. The first line of the Wall Street Journal says the billionaire “is about to land a knockout punch on Greenpeace. ” Donors to Greenpeace will not be happy if their money ends up with a crude […] 8.8 out of 10 based on 17 ratings 8.3 out of 10 based on 18 ratings
Image by Jacqueline Wales from Pixabay By Jo Nova The modern media is like a form of hypnosis Lord help us all. Climate change might wreck Ayers Rock, I mean Uluru. It’s been baking in the desert for 550 million years, but another half a degree C and it’s in “peril“. (You had to use the hair-dryer…) It’s such bad luck. “Climate change” could hit anywhere but it’s going to hit airports, vineyards, national parks, and Bondi Beach? It’s ruining holidays and your favourite symbols. It’s so unfair. I thought this was surely an AI joke, or a grade school project, but Graham Readfearn put his name on it and the Guardian editors didn’t run away. The whole story is a keyword salad of hot button words and random numbers. 620,000 tourism jobs will be at risk they say mindlessly, as if 26 million Australians will stop having holidays and 10 million international guests will stay home, scared off by a one degree Fahrenheit rise. Almost 68% of Australia’s tourism sites at major risk if climate crisis continues, report says Uluru, the Daintree and Bondi beach among iconic Australian locations that could be impacted if […] 8.4 out of 10 based on 28 ratings 8.1 out of 10 based on 30 ratings |
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