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- $650m in renewable energy didn’t save Broken Hill from days of blackouts after a storm islanded it Mon, 28 Oct 24, 8:30amBroken Hill Solar Plant | Photo by Jeremy Buckingham By Jo Nova The lights went out in Broken Hill. A storm blew over seven transmission towers connecting it to the national grid on October 17th. About 19,000 people...
- Smart but deceptive: NSW govt keeps big coal plant on until just after the next election to avoid $3b electricity bill shock Wed, 14 Aug 24, 7:32amBy Jo Nova Hiding the costs of renewables until after the next election The largest coal plant in Australia was supposed to close in August next year, but the NSW government decided to buy a two year extension until a few...
- Snowy 2.0, doomed from the start — after the sinkhole came the poison gas, “worst major project in history” Tue, 24 Oct 23, 4:06amABC News By Jo Nova It’s just emblematic of your Clean Green Future Complexity and false hope is eating the crown of Australia’s Net Zero transition — the Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro scheme. Things have gone...
- Fear, Flooding, Forecasting & Australia’s 2022 Official Rainfall Statistics Mon, 9 Jan 23, 9:00amThere are stories emerging now of children who experience panic attacks every time it rains.
- The year without a summer? In 2022 Sydney didn’t even reach 32 degrees Fri, 6 Jan 23, 7:51amSydney Observatory in the centre of the city in 1864. (Courtesy of the State Library of NSW.) By Jo Nova For the first time in 163 years of records at Sydney Observatory the temperature didn’t even crack 32 degrees...
- Australian grid teeters on edge of blackouts tonight Mon, 13 Jun 22, 6:50pmThe Queensland grid is in crisis — the forecast price for nearly the entire next 24 hours is 15,000 per megawatt hour.
- NSW power so erratically expensive an aluminium smelter powered down three times in a week Sat, 22 May 21, 4:01amThe Tomago smelter uses more than 10% of the entire New South Wales electricity grid supply. But the price spikes in electricity are so crippling the industrial giant could not afford to keep running on three occasions in...
- Ex Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull Dumped from a Climate Board, as a Coal District Election Looms Wed, 7 Apr 21, 11:00amClimate overboard? Panicking NSW Conservatives appear to have abruptly placed political survival ahead of climate appeasement, in the face of a sudden unexpected by-election in a coal jobs district.
- NSW Conservatives drop Toxic Turnbull and climate-angst, fearing voter backlash, UpperClass blame “media conspiracy” Tue, 6 Apr 21, 4:55pmMalcolm Turnbull | | Veni Markovski Last week the NSW State government foolishly gave Malcolm Turnbull a pedestal to advertise his favourite ideology (and possible also help the investment profile of his son.*)...
- Carbon dioxide radically lower but floods destroy houses, cover beaches in debris across NSW in 1857 Mon, 22 Mar 21, 7:57pmFloods are sweeping across NSW and 18,000 people have been evacuated, and rain is forecast to keep coming for til Wednesday. Flooding is described as the worst in 60 years. But that’s the point. There have always been...
- Australian Covid-19 Containment Cracks: Cases Spreading New South Wales and Possibly Queensland Sat, 19 Dec 20, 9:00amNew Aussie lockdowns coming? While Australia's sun drenched Summer weather is a natural advantage which has helped us contain local Covid infections, the epidemic in Australia is far from over, with ongoing sporadic outbreaks...
- Koalas extinct? Hardly. “Nearly everything you have read or heard about koalas is wrong” Fri, 3 Jul 20, 5:34amSince Europeans arrived Koalas have been booming and busting The calls were out this week saying that koalas will be extinct in New South Wales in 30 years...
- Koalas extinct? Hardly. “Nearly everything you have read or heard about koalas, is wrong” Fri, 3 Jul 20, 5:34amSince Europeans arrived Koalas have been booming and busting The calls were out this week saying that koalas will be extinct in New South Wales in 30 years...
- Blockbuster: 178 years of Australian rain has nothing to do with CO2, worst extremes 1849, 1925, 1950 Wed, 22 May 19, 4:18amRemarkable! A new study by Ashcroft, Karoly and Dowdy pieces together an extraordinary 178 years of rainfall data from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. This is a rare study that brings in much older data, looking at trends...
- Legally it’s the wrong time? Coal mine rejected by judge who hopes to change weather Sat, 9 Feb 19, 5:46amSometimes we have laws, and sometimes it’s the wrong time for them A judgement today in a minor NSW court banned a coal mine in the hope of making storms and floods nicer for our great grandchildren...