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Climate Change has become electoral poisonToo 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 at all — in part because these new candidates have narrowed their focus to energy affordability to win back the working class. But their plan to win back the working class won’t work — they picked the wrong topic, then stuck to it like glue, then left it too late to say “sorry” and they aren’t saying sorry anyway. They’re not even admitting they were wrong. “To be clear, this does not mean an abandonment of climate goals.” They say. Instead they make excuses about how good leaders will do things that reduce emissions anyhow, like offering free buses, or redesigning building codes, but they won’t call it “climate change”. Because, shh, we don’t want the voters to know what we are doing, or what we believe. We just want to win, right? Yay, democracy? In one survey 59% of voters were bothered that climate change had become political. That’s a huge slab of the population that doesn’t believe “climate science” is scientific anymore, it’s just political — 59%! The Pew Research Center routinely asks Americans to rank their top concerns, and climate change is consistently near the bottom. The Searchlight Institute found that 59 percent of voters in battleground states are “bothered that climate change has become such a political issue,” while only 42 percent are “motivated to do more and support policies to address climate change.” Rather than building a broad coalition necessary to enact something like a Green New Deal, climate change has become yet another issue fueling polarization. The core problem is that being in power is their only goal, which leaves them lost when when it fails (and when it succeeds too). The solutions they come up with are only about “how to fool the voters into voting for us” — not something constructive like finding out what the people want, or solving some problem, or changing stupid policies in the first place. The Democratic Party remains deeply unpopular. The way out is to stop elevating a litany of single-issue policies that appeal to the already converted. When it comes to climate change, for now, it might be better to say nothing at all. Their big plan failedThey thought the Green New Deal would win over the working voters. They didn’t know (and still don’t realize) that for every green job invented, expensive energy would destroy two to five real jobs. Obviously, the workers live the reality. Later, they must have decided that telling Democrats to “forget climate change” was too close to the truth, so they went back and edited the headline to hide that. Notice how the real meaning got obscured in the rewrite.
It’s what they do. They lie about everything.
May 12th, 2026 | Tags: Left Wing Extremist, Media bias, Psy-Ops, US Politics | Category: Global Warming, Media-matters, Politics |  Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Turns out, when they have a choice, the Brits don’t want Net Zero or Mass ImmigrationThe English Council Elections won’t change the UK parliament, but they are the largest most significant poll of the mood of Great Britain. How bad is it? Half the headlines about the PM Kier Starmer are quoting him vowing that he won’t be quitting. It’s that bad. Labour have lost 1,406 seats, and the Tories have lost 557. Results are still being counted, but extraordinary things are happening. Nigel Farage’s Party — Reform UK — have stormed into more than 1,444 councilor seats in England (out of about 5,000), taken from Labour as well as the Tories. The Conservatives haven’t recovered. The Green wave didn’t happen. As Ross Clark said, “they were supposed to be ‘the insurgent party of the left’ and there was talk of them entering government as part of a left wing coalition”. Restore Britain, is new party launched by ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe, and endorsed by Elon Musk. They are so new, they only stood in 10 seats, but won all of them. Where Reform UK wants to stop the boats and deport illegal migrants. Restore UK wants to reverse mass immigration. Wales, meanwhile, is having a full election for the Senned (which was called the Welsh Assembly). Wales is considered a die-hard Labour stronghold, yet after 27 years in government, Labour have lost, with the first Minister of Wales even losing her seat. The new force in Wales is Plaid Cymru, a centre left nationalist party, with Reform the second largest vote winner. Plaid Cymru want independence (eventually). Everyone wants to get rid of big bad governments, even on the left. Labour suffers historic Wales loss as Reform wins more than 1,000 English council seats and Greens make gainsBBC (Updating regularly) In England, Reform is the biggest winner, picking up more than 1,400 councillors so far. The Greens and Lib Dems also make gains, while the Conservatives lose almost 500 seats and Labour loses more than 1,300. Farage says he’d be very sad to see Kier Starmer go.” He’s our greatest asset”. According to SkyNews UK politics has been upended:
If these results were projected to the House of Commons in a Parliamentary election — Reform would win 284 seats, but still fall short of a majority (of the 326 seats that it needs to win outright.) But the Labour Party would be wiped out from 400 seats to 110 seats. The Tories would be left to negotiate to be part of a coalition. “I’ve seen parties lose a lot of seats… What I’ve never seen before is a party come from zero to 40%” “I’ve never seen such enormous rapid changes in vote-share.” And Australia has a one seat test of the same principle today. The People versus The Blob in Farrer. h/t Another Ian
May 9th, 2026 | Tags: Blob (The), Elections, The Blob, UK | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | |
By Jo Nova Means, motive, and opportunity. It looks for all the world like China used dirty tactics to corner the rare earth processing plants of the world. Michael Kern argues that for the last twenty years, every time a Western rare earth mining operation looked like it was about to build its own processing plant, Chinese producers would flood the market and crash the price of the metal. The investment case would evaporate and the company would go out of business. This kind of predatory capitalism is all very well until the nice guys realize what’s going on and ban your products from their defense contracts, back their own start ups, and those companies develop their own processing techniques, which is what is starting to occur in the US now. China was treating rare earths as a strategic weapon, while the West assumed the free market was free, and was hooked on the cheaper stuff. All’s fair in love and war, but dirty tricks have their own price. How China Killed Every Rare Earth Competitor Before It Could Get StartedBy Michael Kern, Oilprice The West handed its rare earth processing capability to China roughly 40 years ago. The last major U.S. rare earth mine, Mountain Pass in California, closed in 2002, unable to compete with Chinese production costs. By 2010, China controlled approximately 90-95% of global rare earth production and an even larger share of the processing and refining that turns raw material into usable metals and magnets. China was able to control the price because it not only controlled 90% of global rare earth production, but it also controls the Asian Metal Index (AMI). Even if the western company survived the price crash, they were often dependent on Chinese technology that only Chinese operators could maintain, and the CCP sometimes withdrew support leaving the western company with something they couldn’t use. The Crisis That Should Have Changed Everything The most dramatic chapter of this story came in 2010, when a territorial dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands triggered what many consider the first open weaponization of rare earth supply. In September 2010, China unofficially halted rare earth shipments to Japan. Within months, rare earth prices spiked dramatically, with the prices of some oxides increasing more than tenfold. The price of dysprosium oxide alone surged from roughly $90 per kilogram in early 2009 to over $2,300 per kilogram by mid-2011. What followed was a gold rush. Then China did what it usually does. After the initial panic subsided and prices peaked, China eased its restrictions and flooded the market with supply. Prices collapsed just as quickly as they had risen. Dysprosium oxide, which had peaked above $2,300, fell back below $200 per kilogram by 2016. One by one, the Western projects that had launched during the boom ran out of money, ran out of investors, or simply couldn’t compete. Molycorp, the company behind the Mountain Pass revival, filed for bankruptcy in 2015. Read it all. It’s a long article describing how things are changing. On January 1 next year, the US defense procurement rules will ban all Chinese origin rare earth materials. That means price-wars can’t shake out the US suppliers. The US government is also going to financially back key suppliers. One company called REalloy has developed its own processing pathway. It is expected to produce 525 tonnes per year of neodymium-praseodymium metal by early next year. Dirty tricks may help in the short term, but in the long run, it takes a long time to win back the trust.  ConocoPhillips Greater Esofisk area, Norway. By Jo Nova Look how fast Norway is movingWhile Australia and the UK pat themselves on the back, telling themselves that no one is interested in fossil fuels, the market price tells another story. Norway, meanwhile, is going gangbusters on project development. The EcoWorriers are not happy. These gas and oil fields were closed down in 1998 but there is still twenty years of gas and oil left to dig out. Production is due to start in 2028. The end of fossil fuels was always a myth The Blob wanted us to believe. Norwegian government attacked over decision to reopen North Sea gasfields— By Miranda Bryant and Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian Approval for exploration in 70 new areas prompts fierce backlash from fossil fuel opponents Amid sharp price rises in oil and gas since the US and Israel’s attack on Iran in February, Oslo has also given its approval for oil and gas companies to explore in 70 new locations in the North Sea, Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea. The decision by the Labour-run government goes against the advice of the country’s environment agency and has infuriated left-leaning parties. “We live in troubled times,” the prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, said as he announced the decision, which would “create great value for the community, lay the foundation for good jobs throughout the country, ensure our common welfare and contribute to Europe’s energy security and safety”. There are at least five different projects and areas that are suddenly in action: Norway’s state oil company, Equinor, hopes to develop the Rosebank oilfield, while Shell is waiting for a government decision on its Jackdaw gas project. This will of course, help rescue Europe from it’s green fantasy: Norway Just Switched on Another Gas Lifeline for Europe
Equinor has fast-tracked the long-idled Eirin gas field into production, boosting European supply via existing infrastructure at a time when energy security still dominates policy. That backdrop explains why Eirin, holding expected recoverable resources of about 27.6 million barrels of oil equivalent, mainly gas, suddenly carries strategic weight. Thanks to Ben Beattie who retweeted @yestiseye — “oh no, the Australia Institute is going to be so upset“
By Jo Nova It couldn’t happen to a nicer parasitic committeeThis is what happens when you treat your main benefactor like an idiot, and do everything possible to turn them into a vassal state of the Globalist Blob. In return for $800 million a year the UN spreads Chinese bioweapons, and throws giant junkets to reward The Blob loyalists, but nothing for the average American taxpayer. The US pays 22% of the regular UN budget, yet the UN has no respect for American voters or their choices. UN Running Out of Cash, Trump Unmovedby , Gateway Pundit Unless collections improve, Guterres warned, the UN will run out of cash by July 2026. Wide-scale non-payment by member states has accelerated the crisis. In 2025, 42 of 193 member states failed to pay their assessments in full, and by the February 8, 2026 due date, only 55 countries had paid. The United States is the dominant factor. Historically the UN’s largest contributor at 22 percent of the regular and peacekeeping budgets, roughly $820 million per year, the U.S. paid no dues at all in 2025 and accounts for approximately 95 percent of all unpaid contributions currently owed. The total U.S. debt stands at $2.2 billion to the regular operating budget… Not to put too fine a point on it, but the UN wants to control your medical data, decide which injections you must get, and dictate whether you can travel when the next pandemic comes, which it can declare any time it suits. The UN (plus Mark Carney) organized the bankers into a $130 trillion cartel to use pension funds against the average American (and western) voter. It dreams of putting a carbon tax on shipping so it can finally raise its own revenue (and be even less accountable than it already is). What looks act and smells like it’s working to become an unelected Global Government? And what’s the other word for that? — Tyranny. The United Nations is $1.57 billion in debt — quite an achievement for a group that has an annual budget of $3.5 billion. We know the EU and patsy countries like ours will keep funding the UN. But Donald Trump has turned off the tap to crime and corruption. Celebrate the win… POST NOTE: Lest anyone get the wrong idea, the other 78% of UN funding will no doubt continue, as the golden handshake promises of UN roles after politics tempt patsy leaders to chip in their nations wealth to help the poor suffering bureaucrats in Geneva. There is something to be said for electing billionaires who don’t want or need UN handouts. Our best hope is that stupid countries who are desperately in need of oil will be forced to pander to the US because it has what they want. h/t Willie Soon
May 6th, 2026 | Tags: Trump (Donald), United Nations (UN) | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming, Politics | Print This Post | |  Image by Rakib Al Hasan from Pixabay By Jo Nova The pagan witchdoctors are out in force —This time an invisible spooky force called carbon dioxide is stealing away nutrients from food, at least that’s how the Washington Post propaganda team words it. It’s a “surging” culprit causing anemia in pregnant women which can lead to complications and “even death”. Stop the car! Is there no evil this molecule can not do? This is pure climate-scare porn — carbon dioxide makes plants grow faster, and so it has this “awful” effect where crops bulk up more quickly, and without extra fertilizer, the mineral content and protein levels will be slightly diluted by the extra carbohydrate. And when I say slight, I mean barely measurably — in the last 37 years the levels of zinc in an undisclosed amount of chickpeas has fallen from 22% of our RDA to only 20%! Let’s be clear: no one in the rich world eats chickpeas to get iron, protein and zinc, not if they can eat steak instead. All these nutrients are far higher in meat, and they are more absorbable too. So this article is mostly at the concern-troll level. They pretend to care for the poor of Africa, but use their suffering to sell carbon reduction policies. It’s true the world’s poor rely on paltry rice and chickpeas for basic nutrition, but if we want to help them, the answer is to lift them out of poverty and give them a steak, not to change the global climate, cars, and electricity generation in order to get more zinc in their peas. Weight for weight, beef contains three times the protein, four times the zinc, and twice the iron that chickpeas do. The minerals in beef are easier to absorb and also come with B12, B6, selenium, B3, B5, Vitamin A, E, and D. At the very least, in the short term, it would be kind of us to help the poor get better fertilizer and richer soils. NPK fertilizer is essential (and that’s a challenge), but the soils are steadily depleted of iron, magnesium, boron, calcium, vanadium, iodine and twenty other trace minerals. The invisible force making food less nutritiousBy Naema Ahmed and Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post Chickpeas and rice are not the only foods steadily growing less nutritious. Many of humanity’s most important crops — including wheat, potatoes, beans — contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a generation ago. The invisible culprit behind this damaging phenomenon? Carbon dioxide pollution. Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere, caused largely by burning fossil fuels, have produced potent changes in the way plants grow — from increasing their sugar content to depleting essential nutrients like zinc. Experts fear the degradation of Earth’s food supply will cause an epidemic of hidden hunger, in which even people who consume enough calories won’t get the nutrients they need to thrive. More spooky associations: On average, they found, nutrients have already decreased by an average 3.2 percent across all plants since the late 1980s, when the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was about 350 parts per million. Nutrient decline in the last 30 years could just as easily be soil depletion from constant cropping with no replacement of trace minerals. Can poor farmers get seaweed spray in Chad? Can they afford blood and bone fertilizer? Ultimately, Myers said, the best way to protect human health is for people to stop releasing so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which not only depletes the nutritional value of crops but leads to escalating heat waves, intensifying floods and lengthening droughts that hurt food production around the globe. How many windmills in Dubbo does it take to stop one case of anemia in Nigeria? Sadly, the answer is infinity-and-another-ARC-Grant. The diet witchdoctors have done this all before back in 2014. Back then, the fear campaign was about rice losing some iron, and the answer I calculated to compensate for the tiny decline was for the world’s poor to eat one extra chickpea. REFERENCESProtein — 7.02g, Zinc — 0.72mg, Iron — 1.04mg Protein — 21.6g, Zinc — 3.43mg, Iron — 2.29mg
May 5th, 2026 | Tags: Diet, Hyperbole, Junk Science, Nutrition | Category: Diet, Global Warming, Health | Print This Post | |
By Jo Nova Trump said he wanted Energy Dominance. And now the oil tankers are heading to fill up at the USA.Compare the US to Australia. Downunder there is chaos due to fuel shortages, one in four international flights have been cancelled, and inflation figures have leapt, which may lead to higher interest rates. That in turn will likely force some families to sell their homes, and others to go out of business. These are the costs of bad energy planning. Plus, we’re going cap-in-hand to China to beg for fuel. Other Australians are holding off booking holidays in July, for fear that they won’t be able to pay for the petrol to get there, or the regional pump might run dry, which is also hurting the tourism industry. The chaos, it flows. In response the the crisis, our government has just arranged for an extra 150 million liters of fuel to arrive which should keep us going for … almost another 24 hours. If only we had explored for oil and kept a few refineries open? Meanwhile, the USA, run by Orange-man-bad is setting records for the export of crude oil, diesel and gasoline. The Energy Report: US Shatters Crude, Diesel, Gasoline Export RecordsBy Phil Flynn In a striking display of America’s energy dominance, the United States has shattered export records for crude oil, diesel, and gasoline—delivering a powerful message on Persian Gulf Day as military options against Iran remain firmly on the table. This landmark achievement underscores the remarkable strength of U.S. production and refining capacity, even amid global tensions. It comes as Iran says we can expect a message from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on national Persian Gulf Day. The US exported jaw-dropping 14,179 barrels a day of all petroleum products. That blew always last week’s record of 12,881 million barrels a day and was above the 10,645 [thousand] This is why Trump can afford to keep Iran waiting — he has options which Europe and Australia don’t. And this works in his negotiations. The more desperate we are for fuel, the more options Trump has. Most of the shouty commentariat judging the war don’t seem to realize that the oil production tables have turned.  OWID — The most recent figures from 2025 for the US are roughly 12,500TWh- 13,000TWh
REFERENCEEIA Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) Australia consumes about 1.15 million barrels per day of oil products or about 160 million litres.
May 2nd, 2026 | Tags: Fossil Fuel, Peak Oil, Trump (Donald), USA | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | |
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