News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The BBC recently claimed sea levels are rising “much faster” than a century ago. But, as Chris Morrison points out, this relies on cherry-picking the data. In fact, rising sea levels haven't posed a threat for 8,000 years.
Remarkable new scientific evidence has been published that suggests abrupt rises in temperature have been a feature of global climate change going back to the iceless Jurassic period over 150 million years ago.
The recent brief heatwave in the U.K. and parts of Europe provides a textbook case of how the weather is being catastrophised to serve the interests of the command-and-control Net Zero agenda.
Energy writer John Constable warns that the European Green Deal seems all but certain to break Europe’s economic and political power, “rendering it a trivial and incapable backwater, reliant on superior powers”.
The record temperatures yesterday were mainly found at airports. Using a change of wind direction to argue that the climate is undergoing long-term change primarily caused by humans is unscientific nonsense-on-stilts.
Some say insect and bird numbers have dropped precipitously in recent decades. Others point out some species are burgeoning. What's the truth about the 'insect apocalypse'?
Has Kemi Badenoch folded on Net Zero? That's what the Guardian would have us believe, saying she U-turned during a debate and backed the target. But that's not what she says.
Already the forecasts of 40C are dropping, but their work is done. Population scared and headlines written, but let's return to Planet Reality, where the 9.17C average in the 2010s was colder than the 9.31C in the 2000s.
About one half of all land surface temperature measurements used to show global warming and promote the command-and-control Net Zero agenda are taken near or adjacent to hot airport runways.
Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist and the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition, has been banned from LinkedIn for sharing the US Government's own graphs of CO2 levels, which it says are "false" and "not allowed".
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