News Round-Up
19 April 2025
by Toby Young
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by Will Jones
The BBC recently broadcast the series "Big Oil vs The World" alleging that the oil and gas industry deliberately disseminated climate misinformation. But in three hours not a shred of evidence was presented.
Polar bears increasing, forests of coral springing up, global warming on pause, even Arctic ice seems to be making a small comeback – is there no end to all this bad news for green agenda-driven journalists?
Journalists are now having to write up spectacular growth rates in Australian coral through gritted keyboards, as official data show coral cover hits its highest point since records began.
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.
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