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A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate lecturer in Science Communication at the ANU. She’s author of The Skeptics Handbook which has been translated into 15 languages. Each day 5,000 people read joannenova.com.au

Election Deception: Democrats won’t mention the climate, but The Greens are happy anyway

Mark the turning point: Climate activists know they have to hide “the climate” to win the election

By Joanne Nova |2024-08-26T09:01:43-04:00August 24th, 2024|Comments Off

Dear Elon, 1,000ppm of carbon dioxide is safe, we breathe it every day

Not to put too fine a point on it, but we breath out air at 40,000 ppm fifteen times a minute for our entire lives.

By Joanne Nova |2024-08-16T09:40:08-04:00August 17th, 2024|Comments Off

German EV sales down 37% “The market has lost all momentum”

Doubts are spreading about the “prospects of electric cars

By Joanne Nova |2024-08-12T09:47:58-04:00August 12th, 2024|Comments Off

Net Zero targets “unachievable” says Air New Zealand nearly 70% of Australian companies “not even trying”

The flavor of the month is “failure.” Nearly 70% of Australian companies “not even trying”

By Joanne Nova |2024-08-04T16:00:06-04:00August 3rd, 2024|Comments Off

The more renewables Australia added the more expensive electricity got

If Australia gets any more free / cheap energy we’ll go broke.

By Joanne Nova |2024-07-29T11:25:21-04:00July 30th, 2024|Comments Off

China is the coal furnace of the world, and everyone is fine with that

China burns four times as much coal as the second largest coal burner in the world. Everyone else is an also-ran.

By Joanne Nova |2024-07-12T12:01:00-04:00July 14th, 2024|Comments Off

India is going gangbusters building coal

Not-Transitioning: India burns more coal than the US and Europe combined and just ordered $33b in “new coal plants”

By Joanne Nova |2024-07-09T08:53:45-04:00July 9th, 2024|Comments Off

After a trillion tons of CO2, the Great Barrier Reef hits record coral cover third year in a row

The most detailed underwater surveys show that corals are more abundant than we have ever seen them.

By Joanne Nova |2024-07-01T10:15:56-04:00June 30th, 2024|Comments Off

On a bad day $20 billion in wind power across Australia can only guarantee as much power as two diesel generators

How much back-up do we need for our 11.5 gigawatt wind system? About 11.4 gigawatts.

By Joanne Nova |2024-06-17T12:10:24-04:00June 16th, 2024|Comments Off

VW takes €60 billion out of the EV budget and puts it back into combustion cars

EV manufacturers are backing away slowly from the Great EV Debacle.

By Joanne Nova |2024-06-10T10:58:41-04:00June 9th, 2024|Comments Off

The monster called “climate change turbulence” is an imaginary phantom

If climate change is making turbulence worse, pilots and planes haven’t noticed.

By Joanne Nova |2024-06-01T15:58:14-04:00June 1st, 2024|Comments Off

Nuclear versus Renewables: The only cost that matters is the one the customers pay

Games with levelized guesses don’t take all the hidden costs into account

By Joanne Nova |2024-05-24T16:07:52-04:00May 26th, 2024|Comments Off

Tell the world, the Dutch tractor protests and their war on Net Zero won

The forced farm reclamations will stop, mandated heat pumps are out, electric car subsidies are going and in a brave scientific move, no one will be culling livestock to change the weather.

By Joanne Nova |2024-05-21T20:28:48-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Comments Off

There just might be 74 million reasons environmental charities ignore eagles and whales, and reject zero emission nuclear

Renewable billionaires would be crazy if they weren’t funding “Environmental Activists”

By Joanne Nova |2024-05-20T09:50:26-04:00May 19th, 2024|Comments Off

Young adults losing the climate faith in the US, and only one third of voters think the IPCC experts are right

Climate change concerns dip.

By Joanne Nova |2024-05-11T06:05:06-04:00May 14th, 2024|Comments Off