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 Image by Cortex Zone from Pixabay By Jo Nova Interest Rate Climate Porn attacks AustraliaHenceforth 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 KeanBy 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 insurance, with the data showing the economy fares better – albeit still with challenges – when strong climate action is delayed and taken in the 2030s rather than not at all. Mr Kean said Australia’s prudential supervisor had put a scenario estimate on the cost of climate inaction that dwarfed the cost of acting. “We’re talking about household incomes potentially 20 per cent lower than the status quo, persistent inflation, and rising interest rates driven not by policy mistakes but by floods, fires and other disasters made worse by climate change,” Mr Kean said. Not only are climate models unable to predict wind, rain, drought, clouds, cyclones, and El Ninos, they also can’t predict the climate in the short run, the long run, or the past either. Therefore the economic modeling is mere fortune-telling or worse, it’s just advertising. The data, The dataWe already know both types of models are wrong. Despite humans emitting a trillion tons of CO2, Australian climate disasters aren’t costing us any more than they were 60 years ago*. This is despite rampant population growth from 11 million to 27 million people at the same time, with so many extra houses to burn, and a lot more cars to wash away. Globally, the more CO2 we emit, the less we spend on weather disasters. Professor Roger Pielke Jnr has the data. (References below).  Source: ICA. Note that 2025 is through September. Just one big happy Vested InterestMatt Kean is the “fundraiser” for a team dedicated to profiting from Climate subsidies — it’s his job to try to scare you out of your cash. How else will Wollemi Capital make money? Now he’s paired up with APRA, which is a statuary authority supposedly regulating the bankers, but which really works for Minister Jim Chalmers and is totally dependent on the largess of Big Government for it’s 844 salaries. It’s a pure Blob machine, and we can assume their lives are easier if they do things that make Jim Chalmers happier, and also do things that make voters think that Big Spending Governments are worth voting for. (ie, The Labor kind). As for their ability to predict the economy, let’s just say APRA didn’t see the GFC coming. It was the biggest event in APRA’s economic lifetime, and they didn’t warn us. The thing that makes interest rates rise is Big-Spending Governments with fantasies that they can change the global weather. Jim Chalmers not only has an interest in selling his renewable policy, he has an interest in blaming the rises on someone else. Modeling is the legerdemain by which con artists separate you from your money. An obedient model will find whatever the modeler wants it to find.
*To be exact global anthropogenic emissions since 1967 add up to 1.4 trillion tons of CO2. REFERENCESMcAneney, J., Sandercock, B., Crompton, R., Mortlock, T., Musulin, R., Pielke Jr, R., & Gissing, A. (2019). Normalised insurance losses from Australian natural disasters: 1966–2017. Environmental Hazards, 18(5), 414-433. Pielke, Jr. R. (2019). Tracking progress on the economic costs of disasters under the indicators of the sustainable development goals. Environmental Hazards, 18(1), 1-6.
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 storm. The carbon 14 data was so detailed they were able to piece together three solar cycles from 1190 – 12:20. Which means the solar cycles then were only 7 – 8 years long, and were extremely active. In modern times we know that longer cycles are slower quieter ones. During the Little Ice Age the cycles were as long as 16 years and there were long periods with no sunspots at all.  Variation of the solar modulation parameter for the past millennium obtained based on carbon-14 data (Brehm et al., 2021).1) The team found a whole new solar cycle peaking in 1204 that we didn’t know about.  https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/102/4/102_pjab.102.011/_html/-char/en From the paper come the descriptions of many solar observations recorded from 800 years ago: For example, in Meigetsuki, the diary of Fujiwara no Sadaie, a Japanese courtier famous for his poetry, there are descriptions indicating the occurrence of low-latitude red aurorae in Kyoto on February 21 and 23, 1204.6) The sighting of a red aurora is also recorded for February 22 in another historical document, Omuro Soshoki, which remains in Kyoto, suggesting that the intense magnetic storm continued for three consecutive days, making it one of the oldest extreme space weather events documented in historical records. During these three days, red and white stripes were observed toward the north and northeast. This event may be associated with the appearance of a large sunspot with the size of a date palm, as recorded in a Chinese document on February 21, 1204.3) There are also recordings of the sighting of aurorae in the following month in Meigetsuki as well as in a Chinese document2) and a French document.8) In Meigetsuki, there is a description that aurorae were seen over three nights,7) although it was hearsay within the imperial court. This suggests that solar activity was higher for longer than we thought during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). It’s more evidence that solar activity correlates with the global temperatures. It’s remarkable to see how many space weather events are recorded:
‡Heresay within the imperial court. REFERENCEHiroko MIYAHARA, Ryuho KATAOKA, Kazuaki YAMAMOTO, Fuyuki TOKANAI, Toru MORIYA, Mirei TAKEYAMA, Hirohisa SAKURAI, Motonari OHYAMA, Kazuho HORIUCHI, Hideyuki HOTTA. Extremely active Sun from 1190 to 1220 in the Medieval Period: Intercomparison of historical records and tree-ring carbon-14. Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2026; 102 (4): 156 DOI: 10.2183/pjab.102.011 May 20th, 2026 | Tags: Medieval Warm Period, Space-weather | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | |
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 dyingAnna 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, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic). So not independent at all. And the thing that makes this year so awful is a The international spread of vector-borne disease, such as dengue and chikungunya, as well as the health impacts of extreme weather events, global heating, food insecurity and air pollution make a Pheic necessary, said the commission’s report, which will be presented to European ministers on Sunday before the WHO’s world health assembly starts on Monday. Don’t miss the lingo — a Pheic is a “public health emergency of international concern”. Thats the highest level of health alert. So when Ebola goes global or an asteroid lands in Nevada, that’s it, they get the same rating as chikungunya. Let’s all just call it a Pheic Emergency…
The committee includes former health and science ministers — so they’re complete Blob-devotees who know what side of the bread their organic-dairy-free-nut-margarine goes on. It says something about them that they have to tell their fans that a rubber stamp can’t actually reverse climate change: Pheics are the highest level of health alert. Previous declarations include infectious diseases such as Covid and Mpox. While declaring one would not on its own reverse climate change, it would trigger the kind of coordinated international response that the scale of the health crisis demands but has not yet materialised. This is pure stone-age sorcery: [Sir Andrew Haines] added: “If we carry on emitting at current rates, that will accelerate the risks to health for both current and future generations including: more people suffering and dying from excess heat, floods and infectious diseases, air pollution from wildfires, more preterm births and more food insecurity.” Hello? Our wild increases in emissions in the last century have left us safer than we’ve ever been. The more CO2 we emit, the less people die of heat, floods, cold and frostbite. There is no saving the WHO. Nothing it does couldn’t be done better by us directly. The demands it puts out are dangerous unaccountable, and infringements on our rights. It should be disbanded for even suggesting these reckless proposals.
May 19th, 2026 | Tags: Onehealth, United Nations (UN), WHO (World Health Organisation) | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming, Psy-Ops | Print This Post | | Site has had two outages today. These are not the usual sort. Hopefully will be resolved soon. Thanks for your patience. This is a problem with the large Australian server that also hosts many huge retail sites. They must be extremely busy today…
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 to the parasites. In that nanosecond they flip to the party of true leaders — the ones who took a position based on principle and led the way. Until the Liberals take some risks and face down the namecalling vipers, the voters won’t believe they have the mojo to take on the whole cartel of Blob Bankers, Blob Bureaucrats, vested Blob industries and foreign interests who depend upon our climate-patsy compliance with the fantasy. The Liberals need to start to sell the absurdities of “Net Zero” with conviction. The way to win the Teal seats is not to pander to the fantasy, it’s to mock it mercilessly. Every day the Liberals wait for the polls to shift they are that much closer to extinction. It was a good speech, but it could have been a great one… Extracts of Angus Taylors’s Budget Reply SpeechSecond, prioritising net zero and emissions reduction above all else has seen cheap, always-on power dismissed for expensive, sometimes-on, industrial-scale renewables – mainly sourced from offshore. Power prices have soared – causing households to struggle, businesses to close, and industries to move offshore. Far from a future made in Australia, our future is being made abroad. Australians have been fed the lie that our economy can function on solar, wind, and batteries alone. But the truth is fossil fuels continue to drive our economy and our prosperity. In this Budget alone, Labor has $18 billion in new net zero spending. Labor’s net zero obsession is driving up inflation and destroying our economy. That’s why net zero must go. … The Coalition will also abolish Labor’s great big carbon tax – the so-called Safeguard Mechanism. This tax jacks up the price on essential building materials like steel, cement, and glass – driving up the cost of new homes. If the Liberal Party have a rebellious spine, or courage under fire, it’s been excised. Those brave souls who spoke out when the costs of saying something was high were often pushed sideways or right out of the party (like Craig Kelly and Gerard Rennick, or Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson). If the Liberals hadn’t tossed out people like this, they wouldn’t have wasted half a year voting for Susan Ley as a leader in a doomed holding pattern. The party is a shadow of it’s former self. They did drop Net Zero targets last November, and promise to get rid of the Safeguard mechanism, but then they still thought the Paris Agreement was useful.
By Jo Nova So many great companies fell into the climate sink holeSuch 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 goalsTOKYO, 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 demand.
Toshihiro Mibe, CEO of Japan’s second-largest automaker, on Thursday said Honda is scrapping its goal of having EVs make up a fifth of its new car sales in 2030 as well as a target of a full shift to electric or fuel-cell vehicle sales by 2040. And remember, the oil crisis is making things as good for EVs as it possibly can.
Image by Andrea Masciulli from Pixabay
 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 who have some high risk of dementia for some reason choose not to eat eggs. But on the plus side, the results were dose dependent — the more eggs people ate, the lower their risk of Alzheimers, which is about as good as it gets in this kind of study. And they did exclude all the obvious factors, including vegans, and still found the strong link. There are reasons…Eggs are some of the richest sources for choline which is essential from brain and liver health. We know people taking cholinergics (e.g. some antihistamines) may be at higher risk of Alzheimers, and the condition is associated with a loss of cholinergic neurons and a drop in acetyl-choline levels. Two eggs provides almost as much choline as a 3 oz steak but cost a lot less. Eggs also have antioxidants like lutein and zeaxanthin, and they have some DHA fat that is more common in fish oil (especially if the eggs come from free range chickens.) The study was funded by the American Egg Board, so there’s a potential bias, but it begs the question — why wasn’t this study done in 1980 before the experts tossed eggs under the bus? Where was the government? For forty years people thought they were doing “the scientific thing” and were following the experts, but potentially thousands of people suffered with a form of dementia that might have been prevented? Alzheimers is the fifth leading cause of death in the USA but the leading cause of death in a more egg-deficient Australia and also Number 1 in the UK. Though of course, there are other contributors that differ from country to country, like sunlight, vitamin D, and recent medical experiments. Tens of thousands of people suffered. They missed out on the joy of eggs, and possibly got Alzheimers too. For no good reason I can think of, apart from being a rich nation with plenty of beef, Australia has some of the lowest egg eating habits.
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REFERENCEJisoo Oh, Keiji Oda, Gabriela Chiriac, Gary E. Fraser, Rawiwan Sirirat, and Joan Sabaté, affiliated with the Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyles, and Disease Prevention at the School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, and related departments at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California “Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Adventist Health Study-2 Cohort Linked with Medicare Data. . The Journal of Nutrition.” DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2026.101541. OWID – Egg consumption 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 | | |
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