Joanne Nova: China goes gangbusters building 52 big coal plants in 2025

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.

Joanne Nova: Energy prices now the biggest single concern of business in Australia

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 is 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.

Joanne Nova: Deniers are everywhere. The race is on to be a skeptic now.....

Deniers are everywhere. The race is on to be a skeptic now — Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

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.

Joanne Nova: Bankers now abandoning Net Zero too

Banks are not only fleeing from the Net-Zero Bankers club, now they are abandoning their own Net Zero targets too, and in dumping them, we find out they never meant a damn thing anyway. It’s the complete disassembly of a plastic onion, every layer just a fake as the layer before.

But none of these news or investor outlets is even asking the right questions — why did anyone think banks wanted to save the world? How did it ever make sense to pretend that banking institutions were going to turn themselves into Global Angels, fixing the weather, harrassing their clients to switch to paper bags, and turning down loans for coal miners?

Joanna Nova: The U.K. gov wants to “de-westernize” science

Let’s not put race politics in our science lessons

Science has no race — it is true, or it isn’t. But once we start deleting one race or judging one scientific hero by the color of their skin, we can still make science lessons racist. It’s just another anti-white virtue-signalling thing. Instead of teaching children how the world works, someone thinks we should teach them topics that make the Minister sound good at UN cocktail parties.

Joanne Nova: For years the CCP has been sending millions to US universities and NGOs to promote Green Energy

If you have the feeling that our universities are working for the enemy, you might be right

China is a developing nation, too poor to cut carbon emissions themselves, but somehow they can find the money to help the richest nation in the world reduce their fossil fuel use.

Joanne Nova: First hint of energy squeeze and Big Tech drops the wind and solar purity.....

First hint of energy squeeze and Big Tech drops the wind and solar purity, and launches into nuclear power

All those sustainable dreams, gone pfft

Google, Oracle, Microsoft were all raving fans of renewable energy, but all of them have given up trying to reach “net zero” with wind and solar power. In the rush to feed the baby AI gargoyle, instead of lining the streets with wind turbines and battery packs, they’re all suddenly buying, building and talking about nuclear power. For some reason, when running $100 billion dollar data centres, no one seems to want to use random electricity and turn them on and off when the wind stops. Probably because without electricity AI is a dumb rock.

Joanne Nova: German leaders resign after crushing Greens election loss

“Suddenly everybody hates them”. German leaders resign after crushing Greens election loss

The Greens have become the “punching bag” of the Left and the Right

Things just keep getting worse for the Greens in Germany. After two terrible performances in recent state elections the Party “crashed out of the state parliament” in the Brandenburg region of Germany (which surrounds Berlin). Results were so awful, the two current leaders of the German Greens have jointly stepped down.

Joanne Nova: Renewable Fiasco - Had Germany kept nuclear it could have saved $600b and reduced emissions 73%

If the Germans just did nothing at all, it would have been Greener

Germany already had nuclear power in 2002, if they just kept it and didn’t build all the wind and solar plants, they wouldn’t have had to spend 697 Billion Euro on subsidies, and would have cut their emissions by 73% more.