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ABC News By Jo Nova There goes that Big Back-Up Battery plan It looks like consumers won’t save the Australian grid by spending thousands to buy the batteries the government can’t afford. Unfortunately, the government has screwed it up again. They’re (we’re) subsiding solar panels and home batteries, and hoping customers will pay thousands to put a battery in their garage so that the grid managers can use it at dinner time to stop wild price spikes and blackouts. Dean Spaccavento is the co-founder and CEO of Reposit Power –– which sells a controller that connects batteries to solar panels. He says almost no homeowners are signing up for the Virtual Power Plans (VPP) where they share their battery to help balance the grid. People don’t trust the agencies, and even if they did, most of the batteries on the market couldn’t be used in a VPP anyway. They’re not fit for purpose. The government, he said, assumed you could just plug in a battery, but it isn’t like that. “The government’s definition of what qualifies as “VPP ready” is meaningless.” he says, so all the manufacturers can say their battery is “VPP ready” when they’re not. […] By Jo Nova The Net Zero tipping point is here… Even Boris Johnson can see the inevitable grinding collapse of Net Zero is imminent. If he thought it was the way of the future, and was just delayed, he wouldn’t be saying this. But with the writing so obviously on the wall, he’s getting in ahead with the mea culpa — astutely ducking some future barbs and arrows and looking slightly like a leader of relevance still, but only because he’s ahead of the Labour Party. (And the Australian Liberals). Years ago I said the day is coming when everyone will say “I was always a skeptic”. We’re on the way. h/t Andrew Montford who says “We can’t afford politicians who ‘get carried away’.” Boris got carried away… From The Telegraph: Boris Johnson has admitted he went “far too fast” on net zero when he was prime minister, in his most outspoken comments against the policy he championed. Mr Johnson said he got “carried away” by the idea that renewable energy sources could replace fossil fuels and, as a result, electricity is “too expensive for ordinary people”. Mr Johnson told Lord Elliott: “I think net zero, we […] By Jo Nova It was always going to happen, as long as the Minister for Weather was determined to control Pacific Decadal Oscillations with windmills. Everyone would be happy-happy until the bill arrived. In a survey of 500 Australian companies, the rapid rise of energy costs are now the single biggest concern. Any given business was three times as likely to worry about the price of energy rather than about Trump’s tariffs. Yet in the election campaign, mere months ago, media coverage of US tariffs was wall-to-wall. Likewise, the billion-dollar-ABC spends 100 times as long lecturing us on foreign wars as it does discussing the things Australians need, like lights, heat, air conditioning and jobs. The national conversation about electricity grids is nothing more than renewable advertising slogans and fairy wish spells. Everyone can subsidize everyone else to buy solar panels and batteries, and we’ll all have free electricity, yeah? Is there a productivity crisis in Australia. Shh! A survey of more than 500 Australian companies has found energy costs have become the top business challenge Matthew Cranston, The Australian Businesses now rank the cost of energy as the chief concern for their future, rating it almost […] By Jo Nova So many political leaders are backtracking on green policies, Bloomberg laments the Climate Deniers are Hiding in Plain Sight. Sir Kier Starmer was a star at the last COP meeting in Azerbaijan, but this year he doesn’t even want to go to the next COP meeting in Brazil. Apparently his aides “are worried about being criticized by the Reform UK party.” Only two years ago Starmer was criticizing Rishi Sunak for missing COP27, now he’s too scared to go himself lest he look crazy-green. Everywhere countries are saying they care about climate change but are doing the opposite. The EU nations are fighting over their 2035 and 2040 emissions targets, Mexico is borrowing up to keep its oil company afloat, Canada scrapped their carbon tax, and is being “coy” about their 2030 target. Governor Gavin Newsom just boosted oil drilling in California “a year after he described the industry as the “polluted heart of this climate crisis.”” Now Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Tories in the UK, is promising to dump The Climate Change Act if she gets elected. Suddenly, the race is on to be skeptical. She’s in an existential fight for relevance against […] October 3rd, 2025 | Tags: Denier (the insult), Skeptics, UK | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | | By Jo Nova We’re watching the slow collapse of the Net Zero, Gender identity bubble Australia’s largest military ally announced a major change in direction yesterday — shucking the Woke Hair Shirt and baubles of diversity: Hegseth boasted of “remov[ing] the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department”. He added: “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship, no more division, distraction or gender delusions, no more debris.” But most Australians won’t know that. The Australian ABC carefully buried this big shift inside a story on the US budget battle. The transformation of US military values was dismissed as just a “pep-talk” for generals. The ABC showed Trump making an inconsequential joke, and Hegseth discussing physical fitness and shaving. In other words, the ABC wants you to think this was a fitness campaign for a”dysfunctional” government which can’t even pay its generals today. How many Australians would join the dots that the country we depend on for protection just shot down twenty years of leftist fashion bubbles? Where were the interviews with the Australian Deputy Director of Navy Diversity & Inclusion […] October 2nd, 2025 | Tags: Media bias, Woke | Category: Geostrategic, Global Warming, USA | Print This Post | | Plant Bowen by Sam Nash
By Jo Nova The Greens will be apoplectic Donald Trump pays no lip service to the tender heart of the Eco-Blob bureaucrat. Old coal plants are going to be kept running. Plants that have stopped will be reopened and modernized. New coal plants will be built. It’s all there. Some plants will be converted so they can switch between different fuels seamlessly. It’s almost like the US is in a race to claw back industry and manufacturing, and wants to be world leaders in a breakthrough new technology that burns energy for breakfast. This is what a true leader does — they make the right choice while all the minions are aghast, then years later everyone copies them. Trump administration opens more land for coal mining, offers $625M to boost coal-fired power plants By Matthew Daly, AP News WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants as President Donald Trump continues his efforts to reverse the years-long decline in the U.S. coal industry.
By Jo Nova Firstly, all that money we spent — it’s done nothing (shh!) It turns out Australia’s economy has been decarbonising at the same rate for decades regardless of how many windmills and solar panels we install, or how many UN speeches we give. Carbon taxes can come and go, coal plants can close, and we can fill up the roof with pink batts. But in the end, the Australian economy, our GDP, is decarbonising at about 2% a year, and has been since 1992. All the frequent flyer carbon schemes, carbon certificates, waste management plans and electric cars amount to a cake decoration. Roger Pielke Jnr, graphs 30 years of government failure. Mission Impossible By Roger Pielke Jnr, The Honest Broker For all of the sound and fury of Australian climate politics, which have claimed the careers of a few prime ministers, there is no evidence that Australia’s emissions reduction policies have done anything to meaningfully accelerate the rate of decarbonization over many decades. We see how Labor, Liberal, makes no difference. The dinosaur era where we used mostly coal power had nearly the same reduction as the Rudd renewable era where we […] September 30th, 2025 | Tags: CO2 emissions, Emissions (CO2) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Experts are wrong: After 58 years of emissions — disaster losses in Australia stay the same Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment dropped on us last week like the perfect propaganda-bomb — inducing headlines about our horrifying climate future, starring photos of flooded houses. But the data shows the only horror-show is the state of Australian science at the CSIRO. The report predicts that climate change will cause $40 billion in disaster losses each year by 2050. But Professor Roger Pielke Jnr points out that the numbers come from the Colvin Review which “says no such thing”. The Colvin Review merely projects disaster costs will increase due to population growth, not “climate change”. As Pielke says “For a formal government assessment this is, at best, incredibly sloppy.” (He doesn’t add, especially when hundreds of billions of dollars depends upon it.) He expects that people relying on this report might “feel hoodwinked”. (We do). Climate Change is not increasing disaster losses in Australia Despite every fire, flood and spring tide being blamed on climate change, insurance costs for disasters haven’t increased in nearly 60 years, apart from what we’d expect due to inflation and population growth. Pielke got the […] September 26th, 2025 | Tags: Climate Models, Disasters, Pielke Jnr (Roger) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Just when you thought EV’s could not get more deadly Eric Worrall alerts us to the new experimental Burning Battery Ejectors at WattsUp. A Chinese group has invented a James Bond style ejector for EVs to solve those embarrassing moments when the battery reaches thermal runaway, and there are no handy swimming pools to park the car in. It seems like a great idea for all the times the EV starts to smoke while you idle next to a pit of fire retardant foam. Otherwise, it seems a bit tough on pedestrians. This could not only kill school children walking down the road, but take out their bus too. Imagine if a hostile power had remote control over 500 kilogram covert bomb launchers, and they infiltrated our cities? In case of thermal runaway, this proposed EV battery ejection system is designed to send a flaming, venting one-tonne battery pack several meters to the right of the vehicle … and may the gods help anything in its path. (h/t https://t.co/QpsFvjruwZ) pic.twitter.com/Wyu5NIsuKM — Engineer Brains (@HHackenbecker) September 24, 2025 Simon who wrote Australian Climate Madness for years, first spotted the ejector battery and explains the crazy […] September 25th, 2025 | Tags: China, Electric Cars (EV) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Trump just went full Climate Blasphemy at the UN, saying the things we wish someone had said for the last twenty years. It’s a scam, a hoax, and a fraud, he said, and the schmucks at the United Nations have to listen to every word. In 1982, the executive director of the U.N. environmental program predicted that by the year 2000, climate change would cause a global catastrophe “irreversible as any nuclear holocaust”… these predictions were WRONG. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes. Trump warned world leaders that if you don’t get away from this green energy scam (and mass immigration) your countries are going to fail. From 39:00 minutes in he mocks the UN predictions from 1982. “Your countries are going to hell”. Despite him being the highest ranking speaker of the day, the UN escalator stopped working and then the teleprompter didn’t work, making it just that much harder for him to connect with the cameras and the audience for the newsworthy grabs, or making it more likely he would misspeak. What are the odds? When we were in Bali at the UN all those years […] A wind farm near Emerald, Queensland (ABC) By Jo Nova Turns out National Policy is set by Namecalling… Finally, twenty years too late, some Greens admit that wind farms and renewables damage the wilderness they wanted to save, but they’ve stayed silent because they are afraid they’ll be called a climate denier. People may have missed this significant turning point in The Australian ten days ago. Because climate change is essentially a grossly exaggerated scam, it levitates on billions of dollars and a layer-cake of coercion and intimidation. And so it goes that the economic craziness is tearing the Liberals apart, but the environmental destruction is tearing the Greens apart too. Never underestimate the power of petty put-downs. Many on both sides didn’t speak up because they didn’t want to sound stupid, or selfish or “far right”. If the Greens had spoken up against the dehumanizing petty names, instead of staying silent or joining in the namecalling bonfire, we wouldn’t be killing so many eagles and whales and cutting down trees “to save the planet”. Let’s not forget, saving the animals and trees is supposed to be the driving force of The Greens, yet they were willing to […] September 23rd, 2025 | Tags: Bullying, Coercion, Greens, Wind Power | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.1 out of 10 based on 18 ratings By Jo Nova Nearly all the “climate action” we’ve paid for in Australia has only reduced emissions by 3.9% in 20 years Anthony Albanese is proud that Australia has reduced emissions by 28% since 2005, but doesn’t tell Australians that 24% of that was in land use, mostly because we let scrub and forests grow back. And now he’s talking of reducing emissions by 62% by 2035? See: The National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: March 2025 Update The elephant in the emissions kitchen is that only one kind of “carbon reduction” has achieved anything meaningful in Australia — and it’s not wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, fugitive emissions, EVs, batteries, pink batts, LED globes, cloth shopping bags, FOGO bins, paper straws, insulation, carbon taxes, carbon capture schemes, bug burgers, or feeding seaweed to cows to reduce their farts. The only thing that has reduced our emissions in any meaningful way is land use and forestry change (which officially goes by the delightfully-bureaucratic name, “land use, land-use change and forestry,” LULUCF). We can see why they don’t want to talk about LULUCF! Compare these two graphs below. Not only has all the money poured into emissions reduction been trivially effective, […] September 19th, 2025 | Tags: Carbon Accounting, CO2 emissions, Emissions (CO2), Evans (David), Net Zero | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova The World’s Renewables Crash-Test-Dummy has officially set new magical emissions-reductions-targets. It’s just a different shade of impossible, so nothing’s changed. But the labels on the staircase to Green Heaven have switched from 43% to 62%. The UN and President Xi will be happy. It won’t change world temperatures but it might be enough to bribe the UN with to “win” the Olympics of Climate Conferences — the junket to end all junkets. The annual private jet party of bureaucratic celebrities. When our PM was asked why Australia should set targets for global weather control when the three biggest countries on Earth are not, he whipped out a “fun fact” to run a nation by — as Graham Lloyd noticed in The Australian. [Anthony Albanese] hit out at Coalition MPs who argue Australia should not adopt ambitious targets when there was a lack of action from big emitters the US, China and India. “The amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined. Just a fun fact there,” he said. It’s almost like the PM is managing the country […] September 19th, 2025 | Tags: China, CO2 emissions, Emissions (CO2), Net Zero | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Image by emely krause from Pixabay By Jo Nova The world backs away slowly: China and India were never there with Net Zero, the US was, then wasn’t, Canada appeared to be, but in order to be electable, Mark Carney dropped the country’s carbon tax the minute he was appointed PM (because his opponent, Pierre Poilievre had made repealing the federal carbon tax a central plank of his platform). The President of Mexico was a PhD in energy engineering and environmental policy, but now talks about “energy security” and boosting oil and gas production. Meanwhile New Zealand has reversed the oil and gas ban, encourages mining, and will delay the pricing of agricultural emissions by five years. With impeccable timing, just as Australia announces a new more impossible target, Germany and France are squabbling over the EU target, and the EU will now miss the UN deadline. European Union Faces Climate Target Delay, Risks Missing UN Deadline By Seneca ESG The European Union is at risk of missing a key United Nations deadline to submit updated climate targets, as internal disagreements stall progress on a proposed emissions reduction goal for 2040. The bloc […] September 18th, 2025 | Tags: Europe, Net Zero, Paris | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | ABC By Jo Nova Andrew Hastie has “Nailed his colors to the mast” Since belief in Climate Change is maintained through bullying and coercion rather than evidence, it takes someone brave to stand up to it. The Greens can be intimidating, but in Andrew Hastie’s last career, he took on the Taliban, so being called a climate denier is only so scary. Andrew Hasti in Afghanistan, 2009. Photo by Brendan Conroy The Liberal Party has fallen to 27% primary vote — a dismal, perhaps death-spiral position, mirroring the UK Tories. Yet Trump won in the US by calling Net Zero a hoax and dumping it entirely. And Nigel Farage is storming up the polls in the UK — breaking the ancient two-party system. The last time the Liberals stormed an election in Australia was when Tony Abbott won 90 seats promising to Axe the (Carbon) Tax. Polls show 83% of Australians don’t like higher emissions targets. They also show half of Australia doesn’t want to pay a single cent on Net Zero targets. Even the Labor Party hid their new bigger (stupider) Net Zero target during the election because they know the voters don’t want it. […] By Jo Nova It’s a Pantomine from beginning to end — the fakery never ends Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment has dropped on us yesterday like a mass-produced propaganda-bomb. Life and death depends upon “the science”, but the intense, dire and secret climate modeling was mysteriously delayed last month for no reason (except to get some spooky headlines), whereupon the Greens jumped up and down to get it released, and then patted themselves on the back saying Labor caved in. Yes, indeedy, the Government put out the report with perfect PR timing a few days before they plan to tell us how they are raising our emissions target from impossible to astronomical. If they released the “science” a month ago, people would have more time to pick apart the 274 pages of propaganda (or even read it). Science is just a marketing tool for Big Government now, and the document is a fishing mission for catastrophe. We know it’s not science because everything is 100% bad. It’s the purity that gives it away. In the real world, there are always trade-offs. It’s all cost and no benefit The document is a risk assessment which calculates the cost of inaction, […] September 16th, 2025 | Tags: Climate Models, Media bias, Net Zero, Psy-Ops | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Greens are best friends of the Bankers By Jo Nova It hurts the Greens when skepticism rises in polls and they have no good answers It must drive them wild when backward redneck farmers refuse to see the bat killing wind turbines as the shiny totems against bad weather. The ingratitude! (How could they not like high voltage lines!) So The Greens set up a Senate Inquiry on “Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy” convinced that there are buckets of money washing around for astroturfing farmers and paid jobs for bloggers and commentators to spread climate misinformation. It’s as if they think they’re only losing the battle because voters are too stupid to figure out the truth if they accidentally hear both sides of the argument. They have to be fed a pure stream of “the green information”. And thus the caring compassionate Greens turn out to be arrogant, condescending and profoundly undemocratic status seekers yet again. The Greens recite their own religious hymn: “For decades, vested interests have been waging a global war of disinformation against the clean energy transition, including environmental and climate legislation, and these vested interests have recently achieved significant political […] September 12th, 2025 | Tags: Bankers, Climate Money, Greens, Misinformation | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova The latest Times polling shows British people have had enough with paying more for electricity bills, taxes and meat in order to change the weather. Fully 87% said they would not be willing to pay more for domestic electricity or heating bills. 70% said they didn’t want higher taxes, and almost the same number didn’t want to pay more for meat or dairy either. In a democracy, these would be the easy winners. Rarely on key topics are numbers so far above 50%. Yet somehow, some way, the UK conservative party completely missed the big 80:20 issues and lost the election, and then the Australian conservatives did too. The EV thrill is over for the British: The biggest mood shift was away from electric vehicles, and in polling terms, it was seismic. Sometime in the last four years nearly a quarter of Britons changed their mind about whether the government should ban petrol and diesel cars. Between 2021 and now polls shifted from 51% supporting the idea (what were they thinking?) to 58% oppose. Australian politicians should note how brief the infatuation with EV’s really was. Enthusiasm might be over here before it even starts.
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