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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A robust exchange of letters between a BBC climate producer and a former Top Gear producer shines a light on the BBC's willingness to broadcast alarmist climate stories with no basis in fact.
The head of one of HSBC’s biggest rivals defended free speech after HSBC suspended a senior banker for criticising the hysterical tone of the climate debate.
Slowly and surely the forces of climate science disinformation reach out from their academic bases to throttle debate and proscribe off-message reporting. They have conveniently forgotten the lesson of Climategate.
In a major re-evaluation of data from weather balloons rising through the troposphere, scientists have confirmed that temperatures have mostly paused since around 1998.
You might think that if you debunk patently silly extreme weather claims, the entire fear agenda will go away. Think again. Climate change is now firmly embedded in the culture wars surrounding race, identity and gender.
The UK Met Office's latest climate scare story is to predict that a jump in global temperatures of half a degree may occur in the next five years. But what's the truth behind it?
US green outfit Climate Central is feeding misinformation to UK local media, urging them to run scare stories of 17 metre sea rises in 30 years, despite seas only rising by max 2mm a year, or 6cm in 30 years.
A BBC Panorama documentary about global warming made a number of false claims, including that deaths from extreme weather were rising, an internal investigation by the broadcaster has found.
The relentless catastrophising of 'extreme' weather is becoming almost a daily occurrence at the BBC, but the reality in the data is very different from the alarmist picture presented.
Prince Harry's new eco-project tells people who fly to New Zealand for a holiday to make sure they buy local honey and re-use their towels – as though that will make up for the six tonnes of CO2 emitted in the flight.
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