News Round-Up
19 May 2024
by Will Jones
BBC Comes to Terms With Collapsing EV Market
17 May 2024
by Sallust
As time goes on, more and more of the green agenda resembles an effort by the global upper classes to pull the drawbridge up behind them and leave the peasants on the other side of the moat forever, says Dr David McGrogan.
The claim doing the rounds in the mainstream media that 2023 was the hottest in 125,000 years lacks any credible scientific evidence, says Chris Morrison. Arctic tundra were covered in forest 10,000 years ago.
Labour is set to scale back its £28 billion Net Zero investment pledge amid concerns that the Conservatives are going to pursue a "scorched earth" strategy and splurge on tax cuts and other items.
Almost half the Conservative backbench MPs in Parliament belong to a caucus promoting extreme collective Net Zero ideas that is funded by a small group of green billionaire foundations.
Ben Pile predicts that in 2024 Net Zero scepticism is going to grow, threatening the cross-party Westminster consensus on climate policy.
Read the Daily Sceptic's 2024 Almanac of Bad Futurology, from Lord Kelvin's claim that flying machines wouldn't be possible to King Charles's prediction we had eight years to save the planet in 2009.
Junk science alert: top Met Office scientists have indicated that they are set to ditch actual temperature data in favour of model predictions, the quicker to declare a breach of the 1.5°C 'threshold'.
A Lancet report on climate change and health has inadvertently revealed the devastating impact of climate policies on public health in developing countries, says public health expert Mikko Paunio.
The El Niño natural climate phenomenon is behind the high temperatures in 2023, pushing them up to a similar degree as in 2016, new analysis shows.
Audi will hit the brakes on its rollout of electric car models as consumer demand plummets in the face of high prices compared to petrol models.
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