News Round-Up
11 September 2024
The Self-Hating Age: How Oikophobia is Dissolving the West
11 September 2024
by A. Gibson
As climate hysteria peaks, Dr Jessica Weinkle tells Freedom Research's Hannes Sarv that cutting through the media frenzy is crucial for accurately interpreting extreme weather and rising disaster costs.
The economic case for renewable energy doesn't add up and never has, says Economics Professor Ross McKitrick. But governments love the climate alarm agenda because it involves a relentless expansion of their power.
"The climate scare will crumble sooner than you expect," says Climate: The Movie Producer Tom Nelson. "There's not going to be a moment where people say 'we were wrong'. They're just going to stop talking about it."
Prof Ian Plimer has long railed against the climate consensus. Hannes Sarv talks to the geological gadfly about misinformation, global boiling and why the only thing renewable about renewable energy is the subsidies.
"Healthcare is much more corrupt than people think, and industry money goes everywhere, to politicians, medical journals, newspapers etc.," says Cochrane co-founder Professor Peter Gøtzsche.
"CO2 is not a bad gas," says Prof Valentina Zharkova, "the world actually needs more." The climate is instead driven by the Sun, argues the Astrophysicist. "Expect the next 30 years to get colder."
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