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By Jo Nova Only a few schmuck countries are even trying anymore Ten years ago 196 countries signed legally binding pledges to fix the weather. Every five years they agreed they would update their plans, and the plans could only go upwards, and never retreat. So here we are, with a week to go before the COP30 party starts again, but this time only 64 countries have bothered to update their plan. The best guess is that the UN is on target to reach cuts of 10% instead of the 57% cut they said the world needed to stop a 1.5°C rise by 2035. What does legally binding mean? — Turns out, not much. Most countries fail to submit new climate pledges ahead of summit By Matt McGrath, BBC Recently drafted climate plans from scores of countries fall drastically short of what is needed to stave off the worst effects of climate breakdown, analysis has shown. Only 64 countries have submitted new plans to cut carbon, the UN says, despite all being required to do so ahead of next month’s COP30 summit. Taken together, these plans would cut carbon […] 9.4 out of 10 based on 12 ratings November 1st, 2025 | Tags: Unthreaded | Category: Global Warming, Uncategorized |  Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Everyone’s new favourite Bureau of Meteorology page is the old one (reg.bom.gov.au) UPDATE: People don’t seem to realize this is the golden link (above) to the old BoM site. You can remake your bookmarks. Eg: The Old Rain Radars. UPDATE #2: Good news! The BoM has decided to keep the old radar style, but allow people to choose the mm/h newer style if they want. Sounds like a choice! Despite 4 million dollars and 18 months of beta testing the new BoM website was met with anger and dismay and accusations that they put lives at risk by rolling out big unnecessary changes just before the storm season begins in the north. The new design radiates smug condescension. They are the experts and you are the kindy kids. The headers are done in 100 point font, with acres of screen-space used to convey almost nothing at all, apart from the temperature of the capital city near you. The BoM, apparently, thought this is what Australians wanted — “the temperature now”. Except that most people with a computer or a phone can see the temperature in the task bar or home screen. If only […]
By Jo Nova Yet another climate change heavyweight abandons ship It’s the beginning of the end of the renewables fantasy, but there will be no apology — no admission they were wrong, or that thousands upon millions of people have suffered because of climate sorcery. Watch as the billionaire who lectured us from private jets, pivots into word salad. Now he says we still have to solve climate change (whatever that means), but the doomsday view is wrong, and that awful carbon pollution “will not be the end of civilization.” He’s suddenly turned into a kind of Bjorn Lomborg. Forget Mitigation, say hello to Adaptation. On the cusp of COP30 in Brazil, Bill Gates has launched a life raft for his reputation — a 17 page memo called Three tough truths about climate. Bill Gates can see what’s coming (a reckoning for the renewables debacle), and he is repositioning himself so he doesn’t go down with the ship. Indeed, he’s almost writing an escape plan for the whole Blob. In a nutshell, he’s admitting between the lines that wind and solar power are unaffordable, and since climate change won’t actually be that catastrophic, everyone should calm down while […] October 29th, 2025 | Tags: Blob (The), Gates (Bill), Net Zero, The Blob | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova The truth is most Australians are skeptics The Liberals are tearing themselves apart this week over what to do with Net Zero policy. Yet there is polling this week by the Centre for Independent Studies that apparently shows 69% of people would rather use more coal and gas if it made their electricity bills lower. And 55% supported delaying the Net Zero target if it meant electricity was cheaper. As reported in The Australian. So two thirds of the nation clearly don’t think the oceans are going to boil. And lets not forget this is on the back of years of relentless Net Zero propaganda, lessons in schools, and the support of both the government and the opposition. There are no popular sit-coms mocking the windmills, nor are there celebrity endorsements, or football clubs with sponsorship from Big-coal or shirts that say “Instant Power”. There is no Trump or Farage figure here on TV (because the Blob media wouldn’t let them on). Yet somehow the voters have figured it out anyway, but they don’t know they’re in the majority. They don’t wear activist T-shirts and they don’t have bumper stickers on their car. There’s an electoral […] 9.8 out of 10 based on 10 ratings By Jo Nova Spare us from being the Boring Nation Today is the last day to put in a submission. Extended now to Nov 10th! The Nanny State wants to reduce speed limits to save lives, instead of building better roads Lord help us — a few bureaucrats who probably have never driven past Parramatta think our country roads will be safer at 70 or 80 kilometers an hour. By making road trips 10 to 30% longer, and 100% more boring, they may even kill more people than they save. When every trip becomes a longer trip there will be more drivers still on the road at dusk and in the dark. Every extra hour on the road is an hour less to sleep or an hour less with family and friends. So drivers will either be more tired or more lonely. And when a four hour trip becomes a five hour trip, some will choose not to go. Some weddings will be a bit smaller, hospital visitors a bit rarer. Tourism will suffer. Businesses will close. The repercussions of this change is a burden on so many aspects of our lives, most of which the “safety […] Image by AngMoKio By Jo Nova The Daily Telegraph has discovered a major Net Zero project has signed up several Chinese companies. The huge battery and solar scheme in Bundey South Australia has been given the red carpet treatment by the Albanese government. It will be fast tracked as a priority by the government and cash will rain down from the “Capital Investment Scheme (CIS)” . The group running the project is Ganaspi Energy. Supposedly it is based in Sydney, except that when the Daily Telegraph visited the office there, it was empty. No one was responding to emails or text messages, and the phone number didn’t connect. If this company was a ghost corporation, or a front for Chinese interests, they don’t seem to be trying hard to disguise it? Ganaspi Energy has brought in several Chinese firms, and held a party with some them in Suzhou to celebrate. Supposedly, the Bundey BESS and Solar project will be the largest battery storage power station in the Southern Hemisphere. Taxpayers are underwriting the project for the first 15 years. Revealed: Net Zero project’s major links to Chinese business By James Willis, The Daily Telegraph National security […] The Telegraph By Jo Nova All around the world, politicians are stepping back from Net Zero The Net Zero debacle has become such a deadweight for the UK Labour Party, that Tony Blair, Former Labour Prime Minister has dropped a second bombshell on the Environment Minister, blaming renewables for high electricity prices and telling him to abandon Net Zero targets and green levies. This is good news, but before anyone think he has seen the light, be aware the light his team are watching is mostly the rising star of Reform UK. What he’s really afraid of, apparently, is that the horrid “Right-wing populists” might win more elections. It’s a thought so awful, even a Labour stalwart is willing to give up the Net Zero incantation. Imagine how much damage Nigel Farage might do to the Blob if Reform UK romped home? This then, is damage control to stop an electoral wipe-out: Tony Blair urges Ed Miliband to abandon green levies Jonathan Leake, Thu, October 23, 2025, The Telegraph Sir Tony Blair has urged Ed Miliband to abandon his clean power targets and slash expensive green levies. October 24th, 2025 | Category: Global Warming | By Jo Nova The State of Climate Action for 2025 is out, looking like a kindergarten report with red and orange stickers for all the areas the world is failing in, which is everything. Show this report to any MPs who tell you Australia is in danger of being left behind. Ten years after the Paris Agreement even The Guardian notices that despite the bonanza in new wind and solar power, coal use hit a record high last year. It’s a bizarre report, surely a product of an industry oozing too much spare cash. It has finger-wagging lectures, chumpy predictions, and cutsie stamps. But who is supposed to be impressed by this (apart from The Guardian) — political staffers in the third world? No one is going to look at forty graphs of failure and think “we have to double our efforts”. Progress is marked with school teacher lingo like “Well off Track” or “U Turn needed”. As if the world is waiting to hear, and can just, ‘bing’, make planes fly on pumpkin seeds. The graph of zero-carbon sources in electricity generation rather sums it all up — the outstanding hell-for-leather uptake of renewables is almost a flat line, […] October 23rd, 2025 | Tags: Aviation, Carbon Capture (CCS), Hydrogen, Net Zero, Renewable Energy | Category: Global Warming, Renewable | Print This Post | | Image by StockSnap from Pixabay By Jo Nova The Great Unwinding of Climate Change is upon us. Even the US Democrats have realized that times have changed and talking about “climate change” has become toxic to voters, but the Australian conservatives can’t figure it out. Even as Sussan Ley, the Opposition Leader, contemplates taking a baby step away from “Net Zero” targets (pushing it back to 2060), the latest advice for Democrats is “Don’t say Climate Change”. The Democrat leaders say they’ve seen the light because of a recent Searchlight poll, but polling numbers have been the same for the last ten years. Voters have always said climate change is a catastrophe, because it was social-death to say anything else, but they also rank climate change near the bottom of their ToDo lists. They never cared, and it didn’t matter — not until their electricity bills caught fire, and the smelters started closing. Then it mattered, but in a bad way. The field is ripe for a real opposition to pick up this dissatisfaction, instead the Australian Liberals tinker with a different shade of pagan fantasy, while the world moves on, and the left gear up for a […] March for Australia Against Mass Immigration will be held in every major city as well as Grafton, Wodonga, Rockhampton, Townsville, Mackay, and Yeppoon. Take your Australian Flag! People who want to print and drop flyers in letterboxes can find the PDF files here. From their flyer: The questions that Australians should be able to discuss without ill-will: What are you passing on to your children? A NATION WITHOUT FAIR WAGES Not Enough Nurses? Instead of raising wages to attract more Australians, the government imports nurses from the third world – who are happy to work for less! Fair wage demands get ignored. This applies to any and all industries. Don’t count on unions, because diverse workplaces are less likely to unionise1. More Migration = Bigger Labour Pool = Weaker Bargaining Power for Australian Workers A NATION WITHOUT HOUSING What do you think adding 7 million people to Australia’s population in 20 years does? Our housing shortfall is not a supply issue – it’s a mass migration issue. We will never meet demand, when demand is infinite. A NATION WITHOUT SAFETY In Victoria, we’ve seen Africans murdering 12-year-olds by cutting […] October 18th, 2025 | Tags: Immigration, Protests | Category: Australia, Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova It’s time to move the goalposts to rescue some reputations We always knew this day would come. The moment when history gets rewritten so The Blob can pretend their life and death battle for climate change was not scientific Voodoo, and a total waste of twenty years and a thousand billion dollars. If we move all the goalposts, the Paris Agreement is looking good, even though man-made emissions are rising, and almost no one is meeting their targets. Watch the agitprop in action — firstly they pretend this is about maths — “the numbers are in” as if they have evidence and can count to four. But every number is completely invented, totally elastic and all of it was modeled, and none of it has happened. They’re just saying (and lying) that things could have been a lot worse, but phew, the Paris Agreement is working: Has the Paris Agreement started to work? The numbers are in By Nick O Malley, The Sydney Morning Herald As global heat records keep tumbling, a new analysis shows the Paris climate treaty is having an impact, with warming on track to reach 2.6 degrees if […] October 17th, 2025 | Tags: Climate Models, Propaganda, Spin & PR | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Image by Alana Jordan from Pixabay By Jo Nova A Climate Oracle hath spoken and the ABC soaked it all up, no questions asked In research believed to be “the first of its kind” badly trained scientists have gone where no respectable scientist dared to go. They have “attributed” some deaths that haven’t happened to a specific fossil fuel project. This opens the door (they think) to a legal bonanza. Modelling shows gas project emissions will cause hundreds of heat-related deaths By Jo Lauder, ABC Australian researchers have linked a single fossil fuel project to climate impacts, modelling that Woodside’s Scarborough project will cause 484 heat-related deaths in Europe. It is the first time a scientific paper has attributed the climate impacts of a specific fossil fuel project. It also found that the incremental rise in global temperatures from that one project would result in an additional 16 million corals lost in every bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, and expose an extra 516,000 people around the world to unprecedented heat. This study is a scientific wasteland of unverified, unskilled models that fail on humidity, rainfall, […] … By Jo Nova At the top of the Magic Faraway Tree, the cheapest form of energy needs more subsidies. Just keep pouring the money… The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has finally quietly admitted that they’ve given up on wind and solar power becoming cheaper than coal. Instead, renewables are so uncompetitive they will need another ten years of subsidies, or however long it takes until the last coal plant shuts off. It’s so revealing. Once upon a time they might have thought (or at least pretended) that subsidies were there to get the unreliable generators ‘over the development hump’ so they could compete in a free market. But after 20 years of subsidies, there are no new economies of scale left to wait for. We got to the bottom of the cost efficiency curve and we’re going up the other side. Costs are now rising as the new projects have to go to far flung fields and wait for impossible transmission towers to appear. Windmills kept getting bigger until there was a nasty surprise in the maintenance bills that wiped 36% off Siemens shares in a single day. AEMC opine about getting back to a free […] October 15th, 2025 | Tags: Coal, Renewable Energy | Category: Global Warming, Renewable | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova With the climate olympic-junket just weeks away in Brazil, the race is on for word-salad-catastrophes flavored with science-incense to shake down more cash and concessions from the rich democracies. And thus the University of Exeter proffers the first round of this year’s “on the brink” specials. The first tipping point is almost upon us, just like it was every year for the last 29 years in a row: ‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point The world faces a “new reality” as we have reached the first of many Earth system tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action, according to a landmark report released today (13 Oct) by the University of Exeter and international partners. With ministers gathering today ahead of the COP30 summit, the second Global Tipping Points Report finds that warm-water coral reefs – on which nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend – are passing their tipping point. Widespread dieback is taking place and – unless global warming is reversed – extensive reefs as we know them will be lost, although small refuges may survive and must […] October 14th, 2025 | Tags: Hyperbole, Junk Science, Propaganda | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Art by Syaifulptak By Jo Nova Queensland has opened the veil of Sauron — toying with planetary ostracism, death, fire, and cosmic doom. The State Government shattered the taboo, asking: “Should we build the pumped hydro to bend the jet streams — or save $26 billion dollars and keep the coal plants instead? In a brave move they added up the costs of storing sacred green electrons in an artificial lake upon the mount, and decided they’d rather save the money and just stick with perfectly serviceable, reliable coal plants. Turn on the lights. This move will save every household in Queensland $1000. Somewhere, a thousand bureaucrats are shrieking. The government are summoning forbidden megawatts from the underworld. They’re calling back the black fire! And not just for a few cowardly years, but for two whole decades. The oracles of Paris will not forgive this. Queensland scraps Labor power plan in favour of ‘$26bn cheaper option’ By Sarah Elks, The Australian Queenslanders will be saved $26bn – or $1000 a household – by keeping coal-fired power stations open for longer and scrapping or downsizing enormous pumped hydro schemes, Treasury analysis suggests. Energy Minister […] By Jo Nova Climate change is now a severe national security threat A secret report by a Joint Intelligence committee in the UK claim climate change poses a severe threat to National Security. It’s one of the biggest risks facing Britain, the report is “understood” to say. Get ready to be bowled over by the hyperbole: It’s a “stark warning” say anonymous sources, and it’s a “hard hitting report” say the journalists who have not seen it. You might wonder how a 0.14° degree rise per decade could creep up and threaten the SAS, apart from nasty cuts from a broken thermometer — but apparently, the food supply chains are at risk, and migration from the worst affected countries might cause “social disorder”. Which begs the question of why the UK doesn’t just stop disorderly migrants at the national moat? This is the country, after all, that once stopped German tanks and bombers but now is in danger of being overrun by unarmed men in inflatable dinghies. It also seems quite incongruous — the experts have told us a million times that all migrants are good migrants, and yet here’s the Joint Intelligence team trying to raise funding by […] By Jo Nova The Rainforest Reserves community group has achieved something that the Dept of Environment, Energy and Perfect-Weather has not been able to do. Not only has Minister Chris Bowen not managed to create a map to show off his achievements, but nor has any other government agency. Even with a billion dollar budget, the CSIRO has not made a map so user friendly, helpful and informative, nor has the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), the Australian Energy Regulator (AER), the Dept of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR), or the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC). Neither was the map done by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and the Climate Change Authority (CCA). It can’t be an accident… but it does look like The Blob doesn’t want to make it easy for Australians to know how vast these projects are. ARENA got $7 billion to throw at renewable projects over 16 years. They and others, spent 3 million dollars mapping Australia to help renewables investors, but didn’t think to do a map to help Australian taxpayers? (The mapping project closed in 2021, and has now been sort of packed away.) […] October 9th, 2025 | Tags: Renewable Energy | Category: Global Warming, Renewable | Print This Post | | |
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