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Well, how convenient. AI data centers have arrived to be the fall guy for the Energy Minister

AI eats energy for breakfast.

By Jo Nova

If the grid breaks, remember it’s all AI’s fault!

New data centers in Australia may use as much as 6% of the electricity demand by 2030. (That’s a whole six percent increase in demand four years from now. Call the ambulance, eh!).

But the thing is, our fragile grid already has these odd jiggly voltage and frequency spikes now that we’ve blown up all the spare coal plants, and any one of these jiggles may trigger a cluster of data centers to trip out at the same time to protect themselves. If a large load disappears off the grid simultaneously, it could set off a cascading chain of failures causing a widespread blackout. (A bit like the wind farms did in the Great South Australian Blackout of 2016).

So the manager of our forced fantasy transition is lining up the excuses to cover for his own failures. If there’s a blackout, it’s AI’s fault he says. And if prices rise, it’s AI’s fault too claims Minister Chris Bowen — who says that “Wholesale electricity prices could jump by a quarter in NSW and Victoria if data-centre growth is not matched […]

Billionaires are leaving the room with excuses — Bezos says “AI will solve climate crisis”

By Jo Nova

Back in 2020 nothing was more important than climate change. Swept away by the crisis, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos set up a $10,000 million dollar fund to ‘fight climate change and protect nature’. It was the largest piece of atmospheric philanthropy known to mankind. But it’s become a bit of a ghost account.

The money was supposed to be spent by 2030, but six years in, 72% of the funds still haven’t been allocated.

Bezos Earth Fund Is Off Pace to Meet $10 Billion Climate Giving Pledge

By Ben Elgin and Sophie Alexander, Bloomberg

Officials at the Bezos Earth Fund said they remain committed to disbursing $10 billion by 2030. With four years left on the timeline, however, only 28% of the promised funds have been allocated so far.

In interviews and statements, Earth Fund executives reaffirmed their plan to spend $10 billion by the end of the decade. “Many of our strategies remain the same,” a spokesperson said…

Now that Trump sucked the government subsidies away from pet climate projects, you’d think the Bezos funding would be more “needed” than ever.

It’s not just Bezos who is backing away […]

The Craziest eco laws against Farmers. Let’s check that science…

The Burnett River Catchment opens to the south of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

By Jo Nova

Below is the craziest environmental rule Peter Ridd has come across, and below that, a strategy to deal with it.

Queenslanders please sign this Petition!

For some reason no one can explain, the catchments for the Burnett and Mary rivers are included in the Great Barrier Reef protection legislation. These rivers don’t even flow into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, they empty to the south of it, and get swept away by the giant East Australian Current which heads south away from the reef.

The amount of water moving there is so vast that the entire annual flow of the Burnett and Mary Rivers passes in just two minutes.

Any runoff the rivers add to that flow will have to do a full lap of the Pacific Ocean to Peru and back before they get to the Great Barrier Reef.

We’re being so precious about the reef, but there are also eddy currents and gyres in the area that stir up the ocean floor and add a rich nutrient mix to the water. One near Fraser Island is so […]

China cooks the carbon accounting books by 400 million tons

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash

By Jo Nova

We’re facing the sixth mass extinction but carbon accounting games are a performance art and almost no one cares that the largest emitter on Earth has gaping holes in their numbers.

One reader in The Wall Street Journal, pointed out that The Onion saw this coming years ago:

“China Vows to Begin Aggressively Falsifying Air Pollution Numbers.” (2014)

We live in an era where satire became the news.

The Paris Agreement allows everyone to set their own targets, and to define their own terms (and retrospectively as well). So China decided it would count “carbon intensity”, rather than carbon output. But it didn’t define carbon intensity. Normally it means the amount of CO2 emitted per unit GDP — which would work well for China with its rapidly growing economy. But something else is going on.

In the last five years China had promised to cut emissions by 18%, but all the official statistics suggested it was only getting 12% of the way there. Then a miracle happened and suddenly China leapt to a 17.7% reduction, just in the nick of time.

The Ecoworriers team […]

The Wind Power Puzzle (add more wind turbines and get the same output)

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By Jo Nova

The bottomless pit of public spending strikes again

Germany added 14 gigawatts of wind power in the last 5 years, however the total amount of electricity produced is still around 106 Terawatt hours.

Imagine how much money they could have saved if they hadn’t bothered to add more wind turbines?

Wind power is like a perpetual public money vacuum.

From Pierre Gosselin at No Tricks Zone:

Germany’s Die Welt: “Too Much Is Too Much” … Green Energies Are Cannabalizing Each Other!

Wetzel describes this as a ‘wind power puzzle’ and discusses several possible causes:

Several years with weak wind conditions, More frequent curtailments of wind turbines due to grid bottlenecks, The expansion of wind farms at weaker inland locations, So-called shading or ‘wind theft’ effects between wind turbines.

Australia has already done the same experiment. No matter how much wind power we add to the grid we can’t seem to get the bare minimum to increase, (the dark green columns at the bottom).

ie. Wind power remains 95% Useless.

The Australian experiment thanks to WattClarity

The maximum amount of wind power increases but the part we […]

To save the world, Cement Australia stops burning coal and burns trees instead

Tarkine Forest,Tasmania by Tangerineduel

By Jo Nova

We’ve 1,000 years of coal left underground, but we’re returning to burning trees again to scare off the Climate-Yeti.

Environmentalists are aghast, of course, even though this is exactly what they wanted — a lower carbon form of concrete, and an end to coal.

But the 100 year old coal kiln needs $100m worth of transformation to be able to burn wood and tyres properly. So this is an expensive shift, and it won’t be easy to undo, and now the Greens and ABC (but I repeat myself) are concerned…

Concerns native forests could be part of Cement Australia’s ‘sustainable’ fuel option as it moves away from coal

By Kelsey Reid, ABC

One of the largest cement manufacturing sites in Australia has temporarily shut operations as it upgrades its coal-fired kiln to accept alternative fuel sources such as used tyres and “sustainable” wood waste.

Cement Australia’s Railton plant, in north-west Tasmania, will stop production for an estimated 45 days to allow for the $108 million works as the company moves to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

The whole point of the […]

On Fire! US hunger for gas power so large, wait time for turbines blows out to 5+ years

National Archives at College Park – Archives II (College Park, MD) 1979

By Jo Nova

The ferocious demand for gas power to feed US Datacenters has triggered a global shortage

Such is the cashed up desire for gas turbines in the US, that all around the world other people are struggling to get gas turbines. Manufacturers have ramped up production, but waiting times have blown out to more than five years. In sheer desperation, companies are converting jet engines into small gas turbines.

Wow – this graph from the latest IEA report

The demand for gas power in “US captive data centers” is so large it is bigger than the investment in gas power in any other country except for the investment in grid connected datacentres, also in the USA.

Anyone who thinks they can just add a gas turbine here and there to patch up a gap in their renewable transition could be in for a nasty surprise.

“It only takes 30 -45 days to convert a Boeing 737 Jet Engine….”

Soaring Electricity Demand Meets Gas Turbine Shortage

By Irene Slav, OilPrice

Turbine makers like Siemens, GE Vernova, and Mitsubishi are ramping […]

Perth event Saturday May 30th: Green Greed and the Grid

I’ll be speaking tomorrow at an event organized by Gerard Rennick’s team in WA. He will take part from Queensland by video link. It’s all things crazy about the energy crisis, and the pagan witchcraft masquerading as science, and finding a path out of the swamp.

The great thing about these events is meeting the people who come.

It includes food and drinks so anyone who can make it will need to register and pay $33 today so they know the numbers.

Mount Hawthorn Main Hall, Perth, WA from 3pm -7:30pm Tomorrow.

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Catastrophic warming already happened in Antarctica 130,000 years ago

By Jo Nova

Antarctica would have been unrecognizable

The worst global warming nightmares all came true 130,000 years ago, done by mother nature all by herself. Most of the time the media ignores all this inconvenient catastrophe that lasted an astonishing ten thousand years. New research suggests almost all the Ross Ice Shelf melted and large parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet disappeared too, yet somehow Emperor penguins survived. So did the seals and the whales, and there was no tipping point that broke the planet. But the Hunter-gatherer beach clubs of 131,000 years ago were all washed away.

A new study looked at dust in Antarctic ice cores and noticed there was an ominous shift 120,000 years ago. In other periods the ice core had a layer of fine dust that seems to have traveled all the way from South American volcanoes. But when the Earth last warmed out of the depths of the ice age 130,000 years ago, a different type of coarse grainy dust appeared in the ice core they dug out. Normally big grains don’t travel far on the wind, so this implied that it was coming from a close volcanic source. And while there […]

Suddenly the Paris Agreement grows teeth

By Jo Nova

The EU Free Trade agreement would Weaponize the Paris Agreement

The Labor Party want to sign a deal with the EU which means that future Australian governments won’t be able to drop the Paris Agreement without being bludgeoned in trade by the EU. If we revise our Net Zero goals downwards or delay them the EU can cut access for our farmers to their markets. And the EU will be able to say they are not bullying us, or interfering with our sovereign rights, they are just enforcing a trade agreement we signed up for.

In the Labor Governments own words:

For the first time in a free trade agreement, Australia (and the EU) has made a binding commitment to implement obligations under the Paris Agreement on climate change.

— Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Effectively Australian farmers or exporters to the EU will be held hostage by the EU to make sure we meet our Paris targets, even if we vote against Net Zero commitments. The deal has meaningless words like “Australia maintains the right to regulate in pursuit of its own public policy objectives” but if we […]

Australian renewable investments evaporate in 2025: reaching a ten year low

By Jo Nova

Australia is supposed to be going hell for leather to install renewables in order to pretend it has a chance of making Labor’s 82% reduction in emissions target by 2030. Instead investors are running away:

Investors desert Australia’s renewable rollout at ‘critical juncture’

Mike Foley and Nick Toscano, Sydney Morning Herald

Investment in renewable projects collapsed by 50 per cent over the past year, wiping out $4 billion in spending on the rollout, compromising the Albanese government’s clean energy targets and spurring industry warnings that the delays could raise electricity bills.

It’s always a critical juncture for renewables isn’t it? It’s like that for things that serve no useful purpose and levitate on subsidies. Investors must bet on which way the political wind will blow, and last year, after the Trump win, renewable energy took a hit.

Financial commitments for new renewable generation projects fell to a 10-year low in 2025 of $4.4 billion, half the value of projects that reached financial close in 2024, according to the Clean Energy Council’s annual report, published on Tuesday.

Investors are fleeing because of all the usual reasons not to invest — there’s […]

The Bubble Pops: Big Miner BHP quietly backs away from decarbonization

By Jo Nova

The ABC and the Guardian think they are onto some hot scandalous leak, but they don’t seem to realize the awful truth they are accidentally revealing.

This is not the story of an evil miner failing to make commitments, it’s the story of their technology fantasy busting. If wind and solar power were cheap, the profit hungry miners would be doing it wouldn’t they?

Instead all their ambitious plans are coming undone.

BHP is the largest mining company in the world, it has shareholder approval to spend millions on wind and solar projects and on the conversion to electric trucks. They also had an enthusiastic management and Net Zero targets, yet somehow the company has decided to drop or delay the wind and solar projects, and the low emissions processing plant too. It’s all been put in the deep freeze, delayed until 2031 before it even starts.

The truth is that the big electric haul trucks are not even close to being ready, and without the batteries to soak up the unreliable power, there was no point in spending a billion dollars on the wind and solar projects either yet.

Everything hinged on the electric […]

Conservatives are tearing themselves apart over “The Paris Agreement”

By Jo Nova

The Seismic Rift continues as conservative politics fractures over Net Zero and mass immigration.

MRP polls 6015 voters April 29 – May 14 | AFR

Astonishing polls in the AFR today point to a wipe-out of the old centre-right

The message is clear, the voters on the right side of politics don’t want to pander to the climate police and they don’t want mass immigration (which is also true of some voters on the left). It ought to be a snap for the Liberals and the Nationals to figure this out and win them back, but they are not even trying.

One Nation could win a blockbuster tally of between 46 and 59 seats in the Australian Parliament. The Liberal Party would be reduced to between 7 to 21 seats and the Nationals to zero.

It’s the Blob versus The People, but the Liberals are on the Blob’s side. One Nation voters know this is a fight for the country against corruption and globalist power, and they’re hardly going to be won over by a team that says they’ll stick with the UN because they’re a bit busy to just say “No”.

What is […]

Voodoo Modeling says Climate Change makes interest rates rise

Image by Cortex Zone from Pixabay

By Jo Nova

Interest Rate Climate Porn attacks Australia

Henceforth and verily, a witless economic model stacked on top of a skillless scientific one says that eating beef steaks makes the interest rate rise. But, don’t worry, if you spend thousands buying heat pumps, windmills and EVs from Matt Kean’s friends, you’ll pay less on the mortgage (trust us) and Wollemi Capital, who Matt Kean works for, will make more money.

Right now, interest rates are a hot topic, so bingo, Climate Change causes that too:

Inaction to force up rates, says Climate Change Authority’s Matt Kean

By Rosie Lewis, The Australian

Natural disasters fuelled by a failure to curb global warming will make higher interest rates a permanent feature of Australia’s economy, the government’s climate change tsar Matt Kean has claimed, as analysis shows the extent to which climate inaction will harm the nation – in particular in NSW and Queensland – and reduce households’ income.

The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority has relied on economic modelling by Oxford Economics Australia to inform its first stress test of how a changing climate could affect home […]

Deadly “red skies” 800 years ago suggest Sun was extremely active in the medieval warm period

By Jo Nova

The big solar storms of 1201-1204 might be oldest historical records of extreme space weather.

It turns out the Sun was far more active than we thought during the warm late Medieval era — which is jolly awkward for the climate modelers who need to believe the sun is just a irrelevant ball of light that has no effect on Earth’s weather. If high solar activity correlates with warming on Earth (which it seems to) the modelers can’t keep ignoring the sun.

The crux of the matter, is if they add in more solar factors, the models might accidentally actually work without needing CO2. That would be a disaster (for the modelers).

On February 21 and 23 of 1201 AD, a Japanese poet wrote of seeing striking red auroras near Kyoto Japan. Someone nearby described the same thing on Feb 22, which makes it an intense three day solar storm. So researchers started looking for carbon 14 in buried wood in Northern Japan, and, voila, they found a huge spike in carbon 14 that suggest a “sub extreme solar proton event”. They rate this is “about 20% of the Miyake event in 774/775, a legendary solar […]

WHO tells itself to declare global climate health emergency “to save millions”

By Jo Nova

The WHO is itching to trigger the climate and health “Emergency” Powers Act or whatever legalistic bomb our patsy governments signed on our behalf.

Apparently millions of people will die if we don’t have a UN rubber stamp called “Emergency” to save them — because, obviously the big rich countries would never think to send boatloads of fuel, food and clothes all by themselves. (And if they did, Lordy! Without being a conduit for millions of our dollars, how could the UN run its own grift and graft machine?)

WHO Commission says alert would trigger coordinated international response that could help avoid millions dying

Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent, The Guardian

The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said.

Presumably the “Emergency” declaration gives them the tools to declare mandatory vaccination, or ban drugs they don’t like, or to funnel lots of cash.

So the WHO set up a committee to tell the WHO to declare an emergency, eh?

The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, […]

Finally, on the edge of extinction, the Australian opposition start to fight on Net Zero

By Jo Nova

Walking in the Valley of Political Death, after Trump, Farage, and One Nation took all the risks and paved the way out of the Climate Swamp, the Liberals have finally been dragged into saying a definite “No” to Net Zero, including repealing the toxic Safeguard Mechanism.

What they haven’t done as a party is show leadership.

A few brave souls in the party have spoken out (like Andrew Hastie and Alex Antic) but the official Liberal policy, as explained last November, is still that lowering emissions is a worthy thing for no good reason other than being pagan weather controlling witchcraft. Do the Liberals still think that they should pander to the Paris agreement blob? That’s what they said last year.

The thing about “playing it safe”, as the Liberals have done, is that they were waiting for The People to figure out Net Zero was a pile of voodoo before they would risk being called names by the teenage girly monsters. The problem is that once the people realize Net Zero is an international parasite thriving on grift and graft, it’s about a nanosecond before they want a real leader who will take a blow-torch […]

$9b EV experiment failure: Honda posts first annual loss in 70 years, abandons targets

By Jo Nova

So many great companies fell into the climate sink hole

Such was the cultural vibe that giant corporations all collectively jumped off a cliff together hoping to invent a new technology fast enough to be able to land.

In the case of Honda, after 70 years of endless profits, they burnt at least $9 billion dollars, and have given up the idea of trying to get EVs to make up one fifth of their sales by 2030. The demand just isn’t there. They also thought they could shift their whole fleet to electric or fuel cells by 2030. That’s gone too.

Honda posts first annual loss on $9 billion EV writedown, scraps EV sales goals TOKYO, May 14 (Reuters) – Honda Motor (7267.T), opens new tab posted its first annual loss in nearly 70 years as a listed company on Thursday, hit by more than $9 billion in costs ‌to restructure its electric-vehicle business, and the firm scrapped its long-term EV sales target. Revealing its worst financial report since Honda listed on the stock market in 1957 underscores how risky an aggressive bet on EVs can be for a legacy automaker when it slams into weaker-than-expected […]

Eating Eggs five times a week associated with 27% lower risk of Alzheimers

Photo by Biswarup Ganguly

By Jo Nova

The Experts said eggs were high fat foods with too much cholesterol, and egg consumption halved for twenty years in Australia, and still hasn’t recovered. Though in the last ten years egg consumption is increasing in places like the USA and Canada.

Egg consumption per capita in Australia and the UK. OWID

Research Shows That Avoiding Eggs Entirely Linked To 22% Higher Risk Of Memory-Stealing Disease

[StudyFinds]: But now researchers have tracked nearly 40,000 older adults for more than 15 years, and found that people who ate eggs regularly were far less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease than those who never or rarely touched them. The most frequent egg eaters, those having five or more servings a week, showed a 27% lower risk.

In this graph below, it’s almost like eating less than 10 grams a day of egg is a deficiency….

The study was published in The Journal of Nutrition, and drew on data from the Adventist Health Study-2.

The results show there is an association between eggs and dementia, but this sort of study can’t prove causation. It’s always possible that people […]

“Forget Climate Change” says New York Times to Democrats

By Jo Nova

Climate Change has become electoral poison

Too late, the socialists have realized they’ve lost the working class

Not only did the British Labour Party get humiliated in the last few days, but ten thousand miles away, so did the Australia conservatives where they suffered a catastrophic 30% swing to One Nation. The unthinkable is happening. unelectable Climate Deniers are romping home politically, and the workers are voting “far-right”.

Climate change and the core left-wing totems are not just failing to reach voters, they’re actively turning them away. It’s the same in the US where voters have already elected the antichrist of Climate Action (and three times already). It’s slowly dawning on the socialists that it is not a momentary blip.

Things are getting so bad, the New York Times warned Democrats to “Forget climate change, and talk about something else.”.

Hat tip to Climate Depot

The left took the working class for granted:

Forget climate change. Democrats need to talk about other issues.

Matthew T Huber, New York Times

For the past several months, Democratic elites have been debating how much to talk about climate change, if […]

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