News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Australian Academy of Sciences has made a disgraceful call for broadcast news and the internet to censor what it called “harmful disinformation” about climate change, the Great Barrier Reef and Covid vaccines.
Scientists are flocking to sign the World Climate Declaration that states there is no climate emergency – over 100 new signatories in the past two weeks, as anger builds about the hijacking of science by politics.
Pakistan's floods are a tragedy, but they are not the 'worst in history', at least in terms of human deaths, and there are more obvious causes behind them than climate change.
Arctic sea ice has increased since 2012 and is now close to the average for 1991-2000 – another inconvenient fact for climate change alarmists, alongside thriving polar bears and more coral on the Great Barrier Reef.
The World Climate Declaration that "there is no climate emergency" has been censored on social media after a 'fact check' made the bizarre claim, among others, that there has been no natural climate change for 200 years.
Further doubts are being raised about the scale of global warming claimed by the U.K. Met Office, following publication of a damning report into U.S. weather stations which found 96% were corrupted by urban heat.
3.5M tonnes of EU palm oil go to make biodiesel – the same as the amount of sunflower oil exported by Ukraine and Russia combined. There's only a food crisis because we burn food rather than use it to feed people.
The BBC recently broadcast the series "Big Oil vs The World" alleging that the oil and gas industry deliberately disseminated climate misinformation. But in three hours not a shred of evidence was presented.
Polar bears increasing, forests of coral springing up, global warming on pause, even Arctic ice seems to be making a small comeback – is there no end to all this bad news for green agenda-driven journalists?
Journalists are now having to write up spectacular growth rates in Australian coral through gritted keyboards, as official data show coral cover hits its highest point since records began.
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