News Round-Up
8 May 2024
The Met Office's forecast that England will revert to hunter-gathering by 2040 leads a crowded field of strong contenders in this year's Eco Crackpot of the Year Awards.
An American journalism professor has offered tips on how to present climate change news in ways which trick global warming sceptics into unwittingly supporting the alarmist cause.
The BBC is boycotting mayoral briefings in Bristol after the council banned a reporter for asking a Labour politician why he flew across the Atlantic to give a 14-minute speech on climate change.
Another climate 'fact check', this time claiming our story reporting on the latest study showing that increases in CO2 lag behind global warming so cannot cause it, is "mostly false". Yet that is what the data show.
The monsoon season has started in Bangladesh, and the climate Armageddon stories are making their annual appearance in the press. Facts, however, are thin on the ground.
Last week was hot in Britain and the BBC says experts note it is rare to see temperatures this high in June. But a couple of hot days hardly proves that human-caused climate change is responsible.
USA Today is the latest outlet to 'fact check' a Daily Sceptic climate article. It says our claim that weather balloon data show global warming has slowed is "false". But you can see it with your own eyes.
A damning indictment of BBC climate reporting alleging 20 years of endemic bias and the production of fake news, has been presented to the Government’s mid-term Charter review of the Corporation.
Twitter's recent ban on sceptical climate ads appears to presage wider restrictions on climate change debate on social media. Will Elon Musk end the censorship of dissenting voices?
When green activists talk of 'settled' science, they refer to their certainty that humans drive all or most of the changes in the climate. But this certitude is far from settled among scientists.
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