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by Will Jones
The problem with the two goals of aiming for growth and cutting carbon dioxide emissions is that the evidence suggests they are mutually exclusive, writes David Craig.
Billions of people around the world face starvation if Net Zero policies ban the production of nitrogen fertiliser derived from fossil fuels, two top climate scientists have warned.
In one of those stories that requires a double-take, Greta Thunberg has been taking part in a five-day protest blocking the entrance to Norway's energy ministry to protest against wind turbines.
Anything the Covid emergency can require, the activists learnt they could do for the planet. In fact, both parties learnt from each other, with the climate experience providing valuable lessons for virus fanatics.
Welcome to Orlando, Florida, for the annual gathering of climate science sceptics, where the disastrous political plunge into a Net Zero catastrophe will be a major topic of conversation.
Journalist Neil Winton says that when he covered climate change for Reuters he thought CO2 was to blame for rising temperatures, but now he believes the scientific evidence shows he was wrong.
The BBC recently ran a headline claiming Antarctica sea ice had hit a "new record low", but inexplicably missing was the fact that since 1979 the trend in the ice extent is "near zero" and not statistically significant.
Claims that wildlife across the planet has declined by 69% since 1970 are wide of the mark. Take out a tiny number of declining population outliers and we see actual growth. Yet decline is touted as a major climate scare.
An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale” and whole nations could be drowned under the waves, the UN Secretary General has warned.
As another journalist receives $100,000 from a bank as a reward for pushing alarmist climate narratives, Chris Morrison wonders when evidence is going to triumph over hysteria.
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