News Round-Up
19 May 2024
by Will Jones
BBC Comes to Terms With Collapsing EV Market
17 May 2024
by Sallust
Climate activists often repeat the myth that Big Oil is pouring millions into climate scepticism. The reality is that Big Green's billions are driving climate alarmism worldwide.
Climate Armageddon tales are spun stating the temperature will soar unless fossil fuel, currently supplying 80% of our energy needs, is removed within less than 30 years. But it all rests on a highly uncertain hypothesis.
David Craig, author of There is No Climate Crisis, explains why Sir Keir 'Just Stop Oil' Starmer's energy policy will massively increase the electricity bills of households and businesses and cripple the British economy.
Green levies devised by Michael Gove and due to be imposed from next year will increase household shopping bills by up to £140 a year, according to the Telegraph.
The BBC's new multimillion pound Verify unit is paying an army of fact-checkers to root out 'misinformation'. The BBC should start with its own deluge of factually-dubious claims about the 'climate emergency'.
The Thwaites 'Doomsday' Glacier is exhibit A in the case for climate panic. Yet according to new scientific findings, the ice around it is up to eight times thicker than it was 8,000 years ago.
The Guardian recently reported that 'climate disinformation' was rife on GB News, by which it meant that journalists and broadcasters are asking questions about Net Zero instead of swallowing the green propaganda whole.
The Washington Post recently reported that climate change has raised the risk of flight turbulence. In fact, the number of accidents or injuries per flight due to turbulence has fallen dramatically in the last 30 years.
According to a recent poll, more than 50% teens think the world will end in their lifetimes. Fourteen year-old Jack Watson thinks he knows why: no lesson is complete without a dose of climate alarmism, including French!
The data shows that see levels have been falling in Scandinavia for over 100 years. Yet the IPCC has somehow managed to conjure up a model showing it rising. The Daily Sceptic's Chris Morrison investigates.
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