News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The pandemic lockdowns showed what was possible for governments in responding to emergencies and these lessons should be applied to climate change, a German Government report has said.
Net Zero targets must be brought forward by a decade to stop the “climate time bomb", the UN has said at the launch of a major new report. "Humanity is on thin ice – and that ice is melting fast." Good grief.
A massive offshore U.S. wind farm development has a permit to harm hundreds of North Atlantic whales and thousand of dolphins, but activists and media are united in asking the public to move along, nothing to see here.
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.
Billionaire-run foundations are spending enormous sums promoting junk alarmist climate science, in addition to funding on-side academic institutions and other influential bodies.
A new report from the Economist and academic publisher Elsevier targets 'misinformation' from scientists about Covid and climate change, but predictably fails to define misinformation or defend free scientific enquiry.
Dr James Alexander, a politics professor at Bilkent University in Turkey, explores the concept of 'settled science' and concludes it’s one of the great oxymorons of our time.
In September a climate paper sent shockwaves through the 'settled science' community by concluding a 'climate emergency' is not supported by the data. Now a state-owned media agency is trying to get it cancelled.
A major survey into the accuracy of climate models has found that almost all the past temperature forecasts between 1980-2021 were too high compared with accurate satellite measurements.
Of course there will be a new great depression, writes Andrew Montford. Twenty years of vandalism of the energy system was only ever going to have one result, and will not be fixed in a hurry.
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