News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Climate alarm has become a dangerous ideology, says Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography at Cambridge University. An obsessive and outsize concern with it is harming human well-being and development.
A climate activist told his pregnant wife she can't have gas and air during labour because of the impact on the environment. Is this what the activists hope the eco-utopian future will hold? wonders Sallust.
The Earth is about two thirds of a degree centigrade warmer than 50 years ago, but rather than a cause panic, we should be grateful for the lives this saves and the benefits it brings, says Richard Burcik.
Lawks-a-mercy, the oceans have stopped boiling. Plunging ocean temperatures signal the collapse of the strong El Niño that has driven a year-long bout of climate hysteria. How will the Met Office hide it this time?
Dr Chris Larkin warns of the dangers of low atmospheric carbon dioxide and proposes a radical global strategy to lift CO2 levels to prevent plant extinction.
In an interview with UnHerd, the political philosopher John Gray suggests that we have transitioned from what he calls "an age of tragedy" to "an age of absurdity" in relation to climate policy.
The 'climate emergency' is "manufactured", says climate scientist Judith Curry. And she should know: she once spread alarm about climate change herself.
How do we stop Just Stop Oil from making all of our lives a misery? YouTubers Josh Pieters and Archie Manners, aka ‘Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off’, may have the solution. Hats off to a couple of brilliant pranksters.
Climate hysteria isn’t all bad. An investor in renewables explains how all the credulous, trusting fools, incensed by relentless ‘climate emergency’ propaganda have made him rich.
The philosopher Raymond Guess has come up with a useful term to describe the moral blackmail implicit in Covid, climate change and woke hysteria: the Argumentum Hystericum.
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