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Climate change causes child marriages
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Vote Left to get expensive electricity
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Lucky us, The UN deigns to not list the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ (yet again)
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Blackouts and maintenance problems hit farmers forced onto solar and batteries in Western Australia
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One Nation are now the Party of the workers, and Labor the party of wealth and academics
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Net Zero anyone? USA bets big on coal and gas — overtakes China in spending.
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Winning: Trump persuades The World Bank to drop its huge spending target on “climate”
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Bafflement?! Germany, a global leader in renewables but has one of the highest EU electricity prices
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Horse-drawn carriages must have caused a Megadrought in Europe in 1540, right?
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UK facing devastating 36 degree heat — can’t decide whether to use air conditioners or rip them out
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Batteries failed on day One: A four day wind drought in South Australia wreaks havoc, high prices
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The UN wants to be One World Government and it starts with a carbon tax on ships and planes
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What if Global Warming was just because something made the clouds go away…
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Snowy 2.0 is the Trillion dollar Black Hole of Australia — sucking in energy, money, land, industrial relations, the dollar, our lifestyle
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Winter Solstice
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We were throwing-renewable-energy away at record levels in 2025
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Pauline Hanson, the centrist, just wants a free market in electricity, and an end to the renewable energy bribery
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Blame the Climate Yeti again for making your life more expensive! (It’s a smokescreen)
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The Sunrise Project funneled $343 million from overseas to push net zero
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The US government has been secretly funding 120 dangerous biolabs around the world
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New report shows renewables are a drag on our national productivity
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Well, how convenient. AI data centers have arrived to be the fall guy for the Energy Minister
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By Jo Nova
It’s a cult
The latest ABC headline tells us that Climate Change is becoming a *major* driver of child marriage across Asia and the Pacific. All those super cyclones and floods (that never used to happen) are killing the family chickens, see, and poor mothers can’t afford to keep their daughters.
And you, evil sod, who drives a 6 cylinder ute, are to blame for all the young women sold as chattel and denied an education 5,000 miles away. Every time you turn the air conditioner on, another young life is ruined. Obviously.
But let’s not mention the data — where here in the West, the more CO2 we emitted, the older our brides got. Shh! It’s just a meaningless correlation.
The ABC tells us twelve million girls are tipped to become child brides this year. And child marriage is a global problem across cultures and religions, they say, helpfully not mentioning that there is at least one culture on Earth that hasn’t practiced arranged marriages for centuries. (And that would be the one that developed fossil fuels.)
In the empty space, the underlying ABC message is that culture is so meaningless, so unimportant, that […]
By Jo Nova
50 States in the USA show that renewable policies push electricity prices up.
A study by the Institute of Energy Research (IER) in the USA shows how voting for Democrats can lead to monster electricity prices. Wind and solar energy are practically free (as the experts keep telling us) but somehow states with the most ambitious renewable policies have the eye-watering electricity bills. Though there are exceptions when Democrats accidentally have big mountains and can make hydroelectric dams. (See Oregon and Washington, north of California).
The original study came out in December 2025 with a close analysis of just five states. In the latest update they have analyzed another 13 states in detail. Full state profiles are available by clicking on the state, then clicking the link on the box that appears.
According to Lawrence Berkeley National Labs:
…each of the top five most expensive states for electricity have mandates requiring 100% of their power to come from renewable or carbon free sources, making their electricity unnecessarily more expensive.
In contrast eight out of ten states with the lowest electricity prices are reliably red [Republican] and seven of those states have […]
Photo Wise Hok Wai Lum
By Jo Nova
Who Needs World Heritage Listing Anyway?
The best managed and largest reef system in the world just avoided being listed as “in danger” yet again. Despite the reef having near record levels of coral cover for the last four years, UNESCO tut-tutted and gave Australia a conditional pass, telling us we must do a water report in 18 months and conservation report in December 2028. Dance monkey, dance.
Not only that, but the unaudited and unelected foreign committee tells the Australian government that we need to stop the destruction of Queensland’s forest and bushland too, because that’s making the whole planet warmer. So no more industrial wind parks in the wilderness then? Alas — The UN doesn’t care about that destruction, but they do say — like a true Nanny, that they will continue to “watch with a magnifying glass.” Which means exactly nothing. Other coral reefs in the world are being “blast fished” with home made bombs, but their governments didn’t make the mistake of begging for listing as a World Heritage Site, so they can blast away. The magnifying glass doesn’t see the exploding fish.
The Patsy Labor […]
By Jo Nova
It was supposed to be so ambitious, clean and green but turned out to be unreliable, noisy and hard to live with
Things are so bad, some farmers just want the old grid back, but the government won’t let them.
Back in 2022, Western Power was excited about their big plan to get rid of 23,000 kilometers of wire in regional Western Australia by forcing about 4,000 farmers off-grid and supplying them with solar panels and batteries. As of 2026, they have installed about 500 systems. Those farmers are the guinea pigs for the forced transition, whether they like it or not.
If renewable microgrids were going to work anywhere, it is surely in sunny vast first-world Western Australia, where renewable installations are only competing with a high-cost sparse long distance network.
But it hasn’t worked out as well as they hoped: Maintenance issues, outages plague WA standalone power systems
By Mark Bennett and Rosemary Murphy, ABC News Stateline, WA
“We probably used to get three or four power outages a year and we thought it’s going to be great, we’ll have power all year round,” Mr [Ben] Parsons said. “Since […]
An Oil Tanker at Kwinana, Western Australia. Photo by Calistemon.
By Jo Nova
Like the US and UK — the political tides have shifted in Australia and our Prime Minister’s petty scorn of the rising right wing party will bite him
Dear PM, One Nation wouldn’t need to go begging to Asia for spare diesel because if they were in government Australia would be drilling for it ourselves…
Even the Labor Party is now worried about the meteoric rise of One Nation in the polls. So Anthony Albanese, the PM, tried to attack Pauline Hanson by arguing that she couldn’t go crawling to Asia for emergency fuel supplies (like he did), because Asia will remember what she has said. (Which is roughly that she wants to stop mass immigration from Asia (and everywhere else) and end the multicultural experiment.)
One Nation just need to point out the obvious — that a smart political party wouldn’t need to run off and beg for fuel in the first place, because they’d be self sufficient instead. It was his incompetence that meant Australia had only a 30 day supply of fuel, barely two refineries, and no merchant fleet (not one ship!) […]
Russelville Powerplant by Edibobb
By Jo Nova
Remember all the people who said coal was a stranded asset?
The two largest economies on Earth are throwing money at it.
The AI boom is pushing the USA to invest in fossil fuel power in a big way(especially gas).
America Bets $50 Billion On Coal And Gas Power, More Than China, As Electricity Demand Soars
Irena Slav, OilPrice
U.S. companies are set to spend some $50 billion on power generation from coal and natural gas this year, the International Energy Agency has said, as quoted by the Financial Times.
This would be the first time in decades that U.S. spending on coal and gas generation would be higher than what China is investing in the two fuels, with the difference at $3 billion.
That is some transformation — wow.
Financial Times/ Zerohedge.
Waiting times have blown out for gas turbines:
The report cited a Rystad Energy analyst as saying prices for gas turbines have gone up from $800 per kWh to over $2,500. In addition to data centers, whose owners have bet on baseload power supply from gas […]
World Bank
By Jo Nova
Each year the World Bank hands out about $120 billion dollars in grants and loans to poor and middle income countries. But with 670 million people still without access to electricity, you’d think they’d have more important things to do than trying to slow storms in 100 years time.
However The World Bank is a pure creature of The Blob — dependent on Big Government handouts, and comfortably one or two degrees of separation away from any voters or accountability which makes it free to waste money on vainglorious trivia.
Unfortunately for the apparatchik the US is the world’s biggest funder of The World Bank, and President Trump has been giving them a hard time. A few months ago, Scott Bessent called on the World Bank to get back to their core mission — saying they’d lost their way trying to work in climate change, gender, and fashionable social issues. They do have a policy to end poverty by “accelerating gender equity” — if you can believe.
The world’s poor need roads, ports, clean water and reliable electricity, not a prize for participation in a global rain dance. If the loans have to […]
Germany had nuclear power for 66 years | Kühltürme AKW in Phillipsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany By Fischer.H
By Jo Nova
If renewables are expensive, it’s volatile coal’s fault!
How can it be? Germany has all that free wind and solar power but the price of electricity is the second highest in Europe.
Apparently a nation with 45% of its generation from wind and solar is still “tied to volatile fossil fuel”. This is like a hostage situation, it’s so cruel?!
EuroNews is spinning a fairy tale at 100 miles an hour.
Germany is a leader in renewables, so why does it have one of the highest EU electricity prices? By Liam Gilliver, EuroNews Germany generated more electricity from solar and wind in 2025 than any other EU country – but its prices remain tied to volatile fossil fuels.
German households pay around a third more for electricity than the EU average, despite the country’s impressive efforts to ditch fossil fuels.
According to energy think tank Ember, Germany is one of the “global leaders” for wind and solar energy deployment, with 59 per cent of its electricity coming from clean sources in 2025.
Since […]
View of the Hunger Stone on the Elbe in Děčín. The stone marks the low water levels of the Elbe with different dates.
By Jo Nova
Using United Nations Science TM — who can deny that the megadrought of 1540 was a man-made creation? Freakish weather was the new norm. The 1530s was described as one of the driest decades of the last 500 years. Bushfires raged, cattle starved, rivers dried up, and people died of dysentery. The hunger stones appeared on the bottom of the Elbe River (again). The Rhine dried up in parts so people could walk across.
In 1535 one drought caused a famine so bad that in Transylvania dead bodies “littered the roads” and men and women wandered the streets, mad with hunger, eating cats, dogs and supposedly even other people.
Religious leaders called it “end times” — other leaders searched for scapegoats. Those in charge started looking for secret symbols of organized arsonists they could blame for the fires. Water was so scare that some towns banned laundering of clothes. Apparently “everything stank”. And all this was in the midst of the Little Ice Age and with no coal plants in sight for […]
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 clampdown
Climate 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 […]
https://anero.id/energy/2026/june/21
By Jo Nova
The high pressure cell that burned the electricity bill
Wind 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 […]
By Jo Nova
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 grab
By 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 […]
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~!
Marsz et al., 2025
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 […]
Image by Marcus from Pixabay
By Jo Nova
Coming over the event horizon — a project so bad it could break the nation
Snowy 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 government people some $15 billion dollars. In the words of the administrator the Victorian branch of the CFMEU was “no […]
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.
AEMO QED 2025
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%). Grid-scale solar economic offloading rose sharply, […]
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: […]
Time
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.
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Climate change (code for CO2) causes crops to grow and greenery to get greener. So articles […]
By Jo Nova
A story by Greg Roberts in The Australian a couple of months ago seems to have been missed. It exposed a motherlode of funds is flowing into Australia from foreigners to promote Net Zero.
Think of how enormous $343 million dollars is. Even spread over six years, it’s a huge amount of money to any Australia charity to buy teenage rent-a-crowds, social media campaigns, and tin-pot reports.
It’s so sweet that all these foreigners care so much about our environment, right? It’s just the mum’s and dad’s of Shanghai who want Australians to have nicer weather in 100 years…
Or maybe state entities and foreign industrialists want to protect their investments? How could we tell? The largest number of donations supposedly came from the US, but charities are under no obligation to name donors. And large US philanthropic funds can absorb and pass on donations from anywhere if they wanted to disguise the original source.
If, say, the Chinese wind industry (or the Danish one) were able to buy off Australian environmental activists, they win in two ways. Their pet activists demand the government mandate more wind turbines which increases the profits of Big Wind, while at […]
Ebola virus
By Jo Nova
No matter how arrogant and evil we think the Deep State is — it’s worse
The conspiracy nuts were right again.
Marberg Virus | NIAID
The US funding that helped create the Wuhan Flu was not a one-off. It was just the tip of a clandestine industry spread across the world.
The next world war may be a Bioweapon War, and it may have already started.
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) reveals that the US was funding biolabs in more than 30 countries, many of which were working with ways to make dangerous pathogens even more dangerous. There was very little visibility or oversight on these labs and with some in war-zones, or hostile nations, there was always the dark possibility of losing control of the labs.
And so it is that the bad-man Trump-Hitler is the only President so far, who asked his officials to provide the evidence to the world, and to stop the US government funding of gain-of-function experiments.
Past Presidents would just call you a conspiracy nut.
With the AI rush, we are on the cusp of a kind of mutually assured destruction by bioweapons. […]
By Jo Nova
For some reason the pursuit of global teenage-girly weather-control has meant Australian workers are less productive. Who could have guessed that attempts to stop storms, floods and droughts in a hundred years would not make us richer today? I mean, apart from everyone?
“Australians are working harder for less”
In the last 25 years we’ve spent 126% more on capital costs but only improved output by 14%. It’s bad!
Now even the Productivity Commission is warning that renewable green investment is holding back the nation.
Australian productivity was rising until it suddenly fell off a cliff around May 2022 (see the graph below). Coincidentally this was the moment the Albanese Labor Party first got elected and went gangbusters with renewable energy. It seemed to be worthy of an annotated arrow, so I added that in…
Productivity Commission: Quarterly productivity bulletin June 26
From The Australian:
Renewables and green spending drag down productivity, PC warns
By Matthew Cranston, The Australian
Australia’s falling productivity levels have been driven down by the replacement of coal-fired power plants with billions of dollars in renewable energy projects, the Productivity Commission has declared, as it warns […]
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