News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Labour's Energy Secretary Ed Miliband wasted no time in ending the "ban" on onshore wind. But with unreliable wind power escalating in cost, this blind commitment to wind power could be Labour's undoing, says Ben Pile.
Public health has been captured by the Net Zero agenda and abandoned its Enlightenment principles in favour of a new era of dogma and harmful ideology, says Dr David Bell.
Net Zero is a high-cost mitigation strategy that can't possibly be better than adaptation, says David Turver – not least because manmade CO2 is clearly not the climate's main control knob.
Chilly 'Junuary' in fact had more sunshine than average for the time of year, the Met Office has claimed – using its 19th century sunshine recorders that can't tell when its cloudy.
Who are the climate activists bringing down Britain's literary festivals with their climate boycotts? Fossil Free Books' leading lights seem to just love jetting off here, there and everywhere.
BP has put all new offshore wind projects on pause as the oil company’s new Chief Executive seeks to focus more heavily on fossil fuels.
In ruling that oil cannot be extracted without taking into account its impact on Net Zero, the U.K. Supreme Court has delivered yet another blow to the country's dying industries, says Ben Pile, not to mention parliamentary sovereignty.
Recent UK temperature records at Heathrow and Hull East Park have left the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor wondering if nearby jet engines and solar farms had any part to play...
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 BBC has been pushing a story about a summer heatwave in the U.S. – blamed on climate change, of course – but the spectacular 'Junaury' winter storm in Montana got barely a mention.
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