Jo Nova

2 weeks ago | joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Sarah Knapton

By Jo NovaThe Gods in the UK Parliament plan to spend £50 million in a quest to control sunlight, because obviously, the UK is too sunnyAlso obviously, there is nothing more useful the United Kingdom could spend money on than pie-in-the-sky plans for weather-control. It’s not like people are struggling to heat their homes or put food on the table. And it’s not like anything could go wrong, or plants use sunlight.

3 weeks ago | climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Jo Nova

In crash-test dummy land, we solve teenage girl climate anxiety with $500b in fantasy weather experiments…In crash-test dummy land, we solve teenage girl climate anxiety with $500b in fantasy weather experiments…By Jo NovaAnd so we arrive, a nation of people looking at TikTok as they cruise down the freewayThis week, our national energy policy is an Agony-Aunt letter — poor Alexa, 21, has been suffering from ‘climate anxiety’ since she was 15.

1 month ago | joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Ari Natter |Jennifer A. Dlouhy

By Jo NovaAny moment now President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that will boost coal mining, keep old coal power stations running and even restart shuttered coal plants. The word is that the US government will define coal as a “mineral” which allows him to use presidential wartime authority to speed up approvals for coal mines, and to bypass environmental red tape and even prioritize exploration and mining on federal lands.

1 month ago | climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Jo Nova

Even the EU, the motherlode of climate action, backs away from Climate PlansBy Jo NovaThe EU wants to keep their target while exploring every possible option not to keep it. They’re contemplating a “non linear” path, meaning, a much slower approach now, while they think up excuses to bail out later. Politico, [Formerly paid by USAID]To start, officials are contemplating a “nonlinear” path between the EU’s 2030 emissions-cutting target of 55 percent and its 2040 goal — rather than a straight line.

1 month ago | joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Harriet Line

By Jo NovaWhile careers and statues have died at the merest hint of not refuting slavery hard enough, the UK Labour Party will make sure slave-made-solar panels will still be imported to the UK, and the people exploiting the slaves will still be paid. We have to ask, O’ Great Moral Guardians, was it because there aren’t enough solar panels that are not slave-made, and if we stop supporting the slavers, the only panels left will cost a fortune?