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Don’t forget the Blood Moon happening tonight in Sydney at 8:50pm, Brisbane 7:50pm, Perth 7:04pm (on sunset). The peak ‘totality’ will occur 1 hr 15 mins later, and last an hour (so between 10pm-11pm EDT Australia). In the US it will be visible in the early hours before dawn starting at 4:50am on the East Coast, reaching totality at 6:04am EST (US time) . Photo by Occultations April 2007
9.6 out of 10 based on 24 ratings By Jo Nova In a shock move, the German government will allow citizens to use oil and gas to heat their homes again, even though this might increase global temperatures by a thousandth of a degree in 80 years time. The government or rather, the taxpayers, will still be forced to subsidize 30 to 70% of the cost of a new heat pump, but won’t actually fine anyone or put them in jail if they buy an oil or gas heater. (Yay, “freedom”.) Green groups responded with all the wisdom we’ve come to expect: This reform is a disaster’: Climate groups slam Germany for scrapping renewable heating law EuroNews One critic has called the move “an unconditional fulfilment of all the wishes of the fossil fuel lobby”. “This reform is a disaster,” Green Party parliamentary group co-leader Katharina Dröge told the German Press Agency (dpa). “The CDU and SPD [Social Democratic Party] have today made it abundantly clear: climate protection is completely irrelevant to this coalition,” she added. “The federal government has abandoned the achievement of the climate targets.” Germany still relies on oil and gas for 80% of its heating […] By Jo Nova The Renewable Age of Waste has arrived How do you make a solar plant perform best at breakfast and dinner time — when humans need it most? Just build three times as much generation as you *need* and throw away most of what it produces in the middle of the day…. Solar panels peak at midday but demand for electricity is highest when everyone goes home and turns on the oven, the dryer and plugs in a Cybertruck. But that’s no problem when you have billions of taxpayer dollars to waste — just burn the money building generators that spend most of the day working at minimal efficiency. Then call that waste “Economic Curtailment” — supposedly because it not economically worth operating the equipment. This happens when wholesale prices have gone negative and solar plants are *choosing* to blow away the megawatts most of the day. Profligate waste is not just a rare event but our national energy policy. Looking at the graph below, “Availability” is what they could have produced on the left. But what they actually contributed to the country is shown on the right. “Keeping up with the curtailment” By Dan […] February 27th, 2026 | Tags: Renewable Energy, Solar Energy (PV), Wind Power | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | | By Jo Nova It’s rare to see such a dramatic 20 point shift in such a short amount of time Four years ago, 54% of Brits said they wanted Net Zero to happen even sooner than 2050. Now only 29% do. It’s still a crazy thing to want, to spend billions to change cloud cover in 2100AD, but somehow 20% of the population are more skeptical than what they used to be. This is a sizeable survey of 4,027 UK adults from 21-27 August 2025. The ‘culture war’ on net zero: Why have Brits stopped supporting climate policies? These anodyne surveys will always overestimate the enthusiasm for Net Zero, because they are not asking people how much they are willing to pay, or whether they would rather the government solved something else. Nor are they giving people gung-ho skeptical choices — like asking them if climate change is more like a religion than a science, for example. A question that gets people thinking in a way that 30 years of propaganda never does. EuroNews asks why this shift happened, but has no idea. They don’t mention the bill shock in electricity prices in the last few years, or […] Image by Vilius Kukanauskas from Pixabay By Jo Nova The US Threatens to withdraw from the International Energy Agency (IEA) The IEA is a Blob Agency living off the hard earned money of largely Western taxpayers. It was set up during the Oil Crisis in 1974 to advise its 32 member states on oil reserves. Like all Blob creatures it expanded, and now advises on all energy sources, including advocating for the unreliable and fantasy options. Every year it issues the World Energy Outlook, and tells us that coal has peaked and is about to decline. And every year, it’s been wrong. Chris Wright, the US Secretary of Energy slammed the IEA (International Energy Agency) and threatened to withdraw US funding (which is about $6m of the total $22m). The US government wants the IEA to get back to their core mission and stop pushing Net Zero. Chris Wright speaks the blasphemy that The Blob will not say: “There is a 0% chance of the world hitting Net Zero by 2050.” By Energy News Live He said: “This organisation has been pushed off course, and for five years published energy scenarios going […] From Renewables Superpower to Stupid-Power: History books will be written about how the world’s largest coal exporter placed a trillion dollar bet that it could lead the world away from coal, and how most of the world ignored it. Australia spent billions to close one lone coal plant while China built 50 new ones — partly so it could power the factories that Australia used to have. Just when things were starting to go horribly wrong, the AI revolution arrived to make it worse. Suddenly the world found itself in a race it could not afford to lose. The winner would have a force-multipler for every field of research, science, weapons, drugs, medicine, and encryption. But information is energy, and the AI need for reliable gigawatts is insatiable. Microsoft is so hungry for electricity, in one year it switched from building “the biggest renewable plant”, to reactivating the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Australia is the last major coal producer on Earth on a suicidal mission to kill coal, which fits right in with being a uranium powerhouse in an anti-nuclear zone. RSL Hall, 22 Leake Street, Belmont, WA 6104 Wednesday 25 February 2026, […]
Mike W. from Vancouver, Canada By Jo Nova Yet more proof that mother nature is far worse than man-made climate change. The extinction of tall trees and land birds on Easter Island became the apocryphal story of a man-made ecological disaster, but a new technique for estimating rainfall shows that there was a terrible drought starting in 1550AD that lasted for 100 years. This would have been a bit dire on a small island that doesn’t even have a river and relied on a crater lakes. In recent times, catastrophic climate change has apparently reduced rainfall by 370mm. But starting around 1550AD rainfall declined by a shocking 600 to 800 mm per year. Despite the severe drought the population wasn’t wiped out — their population doesn’t seem to have collapsed. The rainfall shift coincided with many cultural changes and even the development of rock gardens called lithic mulching – where farmers get desperate enough to use rocks as ground cover and a soil improver to keep the evaporation rates down. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02801-4/figures/3 At the same time as the rain declined, the people changed the way they live… Notable cultural shifts also took place during […] February 21st, 2026 | Tags: Civilization (dawn of), Pacific Islands | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Shuozhou coal power plant. by Kleineolive By Jo Nova It’s almost like China doesn’t give a toss about climate change, eh? Just quietly, while everyone was gushing tears over a two year extension to a fifty year old Australian plant, China added a gargantuan number of brand new coal plants. Australia’s total coal fleet stands at 26 gigawatts in capacity. Yet China added three times that capacity in a single year. Overall, China brought 78 gigawatts of new coal power capacity online in 2025, a sharp uptick from previous years, according to the joint report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and Global Energy Monitor. The graph below represents how many gigawatts were added, but only in the largest turbines size. China added 52 gigawatts of energy from one gigawatt units. Presumably the rest of the 78GW came from smaller sized turbines. And here’s the thing, while everyone will pretend this is the peak and tell us “it will decline soon”, another 83 gigawatts of coal plants has already started construction, and another 161GW is newly proposed or applied for. These coal plants are apparently only being used at 50% capacity, […] … By Jo Nova Australian Mums and Dads who want a petrol or diesel car will soon be effectively paying money to China to make EV’s cheaper for inner city socialites. Make no mistake, despite the propaganda, Australia now has a carbon tax on petrol and diesel cars and the revenue will go straight to companies that sell EVs — which means the cash will flow to China more than anywhere else. The news today: “Mazda, Nissan, Hyundai and Subaru face multi-million-dollar penalties under NVES” by Jake Evans, the ABC The New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) requires car makers to meet emissions limits on the total cars they sell each year, incurring a $50 liability for every gram of CO2/km over that limit, which must be paid as a penalty or traded with greener car makers that accrued credits. The liabilities are due to be paid in three years’ time, meaning the car makers can also reduce their liability by selling more cleaner cars in the next two years. In the first six months of the NVES, Mazda has incurred a $25.4 million liability, Subaru […] February 19th, 2026 | Tags: China, Electric Cars (EV) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Is this the End of Communism in Cuba? We don’t hear much about Cuba in Australia, but it is suffering rolling 16 hour blackouts, the streets are filled with rubbish, people are cooking with wood and charcoal, and the airports have run out of jet fuel. The US is offering food aid, but only on the condition that the Cuban government does not interfere with the delivery. Cuba’s fuel crisis has become a waste crisis as many garbage trucks don’t have enough gas to pick up rubbish which is piling up on Havana’s street corners https://t.co/AQ50L5j9KG pic.twitter.com/3BhugSOcJJ — Reuters (@Reuters) February 16, 2026 The US is blockading shipments of oil to Cuba in an effort to get the communist regime to talk. Cuba relied on Venezuelan shipments of oil, but after the US captured President Maduro, Cuba lost one of their best allies, and the US has stopped the oil shipments. Trump also signed an order last month declaring Cuba to be a national security threat and he threatened to put tariffs on any nation that sent oil to Cuba. Trump has said that “Cuba is a failed state” and that he won’t mind […] By Jo Nova The latest plan to get better weather in a hundred years, is to cut down trees and dump them in the ocean. The great northern boreal forest has expanded by 12% since 1984. Which means it has locked up all this extra carbon in it. Instead of waiting for it to catch fire and burn, the thinking is that we could cut it down now, and throw the logs in a river that leads to the Arctic ocean where they will sink (eventually, maybe) and take carbon to the sea floor. New Scientist thought this was a good idea. Future anthropologists may file modern eco-science with arsenic cures, and radium toothpaste. In order to save the environment, we need to cut down 180,000 square kilometers of forest and toss it into the river (every year). How many trees do we have to kill to stop a cyclone in 2100AD?
… These researchers and journalists are the kind of people who’ll check everything — except the core underlying assumptions that their fantasy is based on: Humanity will need to find ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to compensate for industries that are hard […] By Jo Nova NASA has finally studied the LandSat satellite images of vegetation down to 30 metre resolution and discovered with “unprecedented detail” that climate change is a good thing. The northern boreal forests are the largest terrestrial biome in the world, and it’s warming faster than any other forest type, and loving it. This is the catastrophe they’ve been warning us about… Satellite record shows boreal forests expanded 12% and shifted north since 1985 What kind of pollution causes forest growth? It’s time we got serious about the benefits of CO2. The analysis revealed that boreal forests both grew in size and moved northward. The forests expanded by 0.844 million km² (a 12% increase) and shifted northward by 0.29° mean latitude, with gains concentrated between 64°N and 68°N. Their work also showcased the capacity of new growth to act as a carbon sink. Young boreal forests (up to 36 years) hold an estimated 1.1–5.9 petagrams of carbon (Pg C) with the potential to sequester an additional 2.3–3.8 Pg C if allowed to mature. Landsat’s long-time series of highly calibrated data allows researchers to study how ecosystems shift over decades, a crucial insight into our changing world. […] By Jo Nova The world is backing away from renewables Wow. What a turnaround. President Macron, a man of The Blob, has come right out and blamed the Spanish Blackouts on renewables. No system, he says, can be so dependent on renewables. Everyone knew this, but few in power would say the words. Back in 2017 this was the man who had a plan to shut down 14 nuclear reactors in France. Today he plans to push through a law to reverse that. At the same time, the current French renewable energy targets have just been dropped by 20%. Instead of building 150GW of unreliable power, the new target will be about 120GW. Back in April, Spain finally celebrated 100% renewable energy, and within days suffered a national blackout that caused at least five deaths and left thousands without lighting and the internet, and panic-buying petrol and food. The blackout spread as far as Portugal and Southern France. Macron blames renewable energy for Spain’s national blackout — By Kieran Kelly, The Telegraph French president says European neighbour’s deadly power cuts were caused by shift towards net zero In response […] February 13th, 2026 | Tags: Blackouts, Renewable Energy, Spain | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova At some point, Western governments decided to pick winners, and set deadlines for inventions and discoveries and most car manufacturers clapped quietly. They didn’t speak up, presumably because they didn’t want to look like a climate denier. But it’s been a disastrous choice for the auto makers that jumped onto the EV bandwagon with both feet. A few days ago the corporate mothership for Fiat Peugeot and Chrysler, announced a $26 billion US dollar loss and shares fell 27%. This ignominiously follows the brutal $20 billion dollar Ford write down. The CEO of Stellantis has announced a reset of the company and in a radical plan, decided to “make our customers and their preferences our guiding star.” Crikey — they will try making cars that customers actually want, rather than ones that change the weather. Robert Bryce estimates the known losses add up to $140 billion in the last 4 years. And that’s only the money burned by Ford, Stellantis, GM, Mercedes, Volkswagon, Rivian, and Lucid. Other companies have signed and bragged about big deals that they later backed away from. But they haven’t necessarily announced their EV specific losses. So who knows how much Honda, […] Trump to wipe out “Endangerment Finding” and pardon CO2 in largest act of deregulation in US history… By Jo Nova Trump to throw Saurons ring into the volcano this week — soon CO2 will NOT be legally classed as pollution that endangers human life Trump always wanted to cut the power of the “Climate Change Hoax” at the source, which was the 2009 Endangerment Finding. It is the excuse for Big Government to get itself into your car, house, air, steaks and factories while thieving from your wallet. A spokesman at the EPA described this as “one of the most damaging decisions in modern history” so we know it hurts The Blob. The Endangerment Finding was the 2009 legal determination that CO2 caused everything bad, and therefore government agencies had an obligation to protect the public from it, and companies had to track emissions, cars had to be purified, emissions had to be tracked and certified. Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback Meridith McGraw and Benoît Morenne, The Wall Street Journal The Trump administration is planning this week to repeal the Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, according to U.S. officials, in the […] The Australian By Jo Nova Cynics are wondering what, exactly Australia got for spending $1.6 million sending 75 people on a two week junket in Brazil last year? Australia, of course, got nothing, but this is the bread and butter currency for The Blob. How else can you convince bored bureaucrats to pretend warming causes cooling, and maintain the righteous indignation! Getting a free trip to Brazil surely ranks pretty high on bragging lists at Saturday night dinners. That shine helps make up for the mental effort of selling your soul and pretending that Sunday night’s pot roast causes floods in Dhaka. It also provides the inspiration to keep the next generation of Blobocrats focused. The underlings learn that people who shed tears about climate change get rewarded, while the critics don’t. Just one ill advised remark, one careless joke, could compromise the plane tickets. Australia spends $1.6m sending 75 officials to Brazil for UN climate climate summit Responses to Senate estimates questions on notice have revealed Department of Climate Change and Energy sent 32 officials, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade sent nine officials, and the Department of Agriculture sent one official […] By Jo Nova Engineers really don’t like phrases like “right skewed degradation with a long fat tail” But new data suggests that’s exactly what’s is happening in the global solar fleet, and it’s bad news for insurers, installers, and grid planners. One of the largest and longest studies ever done has looked at 11,000 solar panels around the world and found the same mysterious bump in unexpected failures. Surprisingly it didn’t matter whether the panels were installed in hot, cold or humid environments, the unexpected failures were still there. This suggests the higher failure rate is a systemic problem, not just something that afflicts those installed, say, in humid areas, or in the desert. UNSW study finds up to 20% of solar panels degrade far faster than expected By Casey McGuire Electrical Connection Lead author Yang Tang says this has serious implications for system longevity: “Most solar systems are designed to last around 25 years, based on their warranty period.” “But at least one in five systems degrade much faster than the typical rate and roughly one in 12 degrade twice as fast. This means some systems could lose about 45% of their […] February 7th, 2026 | Tags: Renewable Energy, Solar Energy (PV) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | RedState By Jo Nova We need to talk about bioweapons… A house cleaner known only as Kelly reported a suspicious garage in an AirBNB in Las Vegas to the FBI a few weeks ago. Apparently it was normally locked, but when it was left open she noticed a foul “hospital” smell. On Saturday investigators found fridges and carted away “more than 1,000 pieces of evidence”. They arrested a man who managed the property and discovered the owner he worked for was in jail and used to own the Reedley illegal bioweapon lab as well. That was the lab found by sheer chance that had vials of samples marked “Ebola”, “HIV”, Covid-19″ and “Tuberculosis”. There were also a thousand lab mice in there and people wearing hazmat suits. Righto, so having found a hostile, highly dangerous, existential potential threat in 2023, no one asked the question, “does he own anything else?” No one thought to look at his other properties? Kelly, the AirBNB cleaner was probably extra suspicious because she and another employee reported that the garage made them sick: Police source describes falling ‘deathly ill’ after entering Las Vegas garage where biolab was found — By […] February 6th, 2026 | Tags: Bioweapon, CDC, China | Category: Global Warming, Microbiology | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova The Northern Territory will become unlivable says the ABC, mindlessly parroting the latest activist-blob voodoo. The ABC Blob News spent nearly $3 million dollars of our money today but didn’t spend ten minutes cross checking the latest scare. Extreme heat will make Northern Territory unlivable within 40 years, activists warn By Matthew Qvortrup, ABC The Climate Justice Alliance, a coalition of health, housing, environmental and social service organisations, says rising temperatures and increasingly severe heatwaves present a direct and immediate threat to people across the Territory, particularly in the Top End. Environmental advocate Ned Bible from Jesuit Social Services said the scale and speed of warming meant urgent, coordinated action was needed from all levels of government. “Without urgent action, extreme heat will make the Northern Territory unlivable in less than 40 years,” Dr Bible said. If only the ABC spent two minutes searching the historic temperature records on the BoM site they’d see that while temperatures have risen since the 1940s, Darwin has long good records and it was hotter 120 years ago. And before anyone says “non standard equipment” the answer is “No” — Stevenson […] February 5th, 2026 | Tags: BOM, NT (Northern Territory) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova The United Nations, as nice as they are, just want to tax the evil corporate giants who polluted the world. What teenage doting girlie would not be happy with that? (What communist sympathizer could say “no”?) I mean, wouldn’t we all want a wealth tax on the uber rich to help stop storms and droughts and prevent obesity in polar bears? And wouldn’t we all want that money to go to an unelected, unaudited committee in Geneva? In reality, of course, the UN dreams of taxing the likes of Shell and Exxon in order to … get back the money Donald Trump took away. But they can’t just ask the hardworking middle class of America to pay the UN directly, especially when they voted for Donald Trump. Instead they tax the big companies, and hope no one notices that Big Oil will just recover the costs by raising the price of oil and gas. Where do they think the money will come from? The bill will be paid by pension funds and shareholders who lose profits, grandmas who want to heat their homes, and mums and dads filling up cars and buying frozen peas. Everything will […] |
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