The Economist has estimated that, over the winter, high energy prices led to 68,000 excess deaths in Europe. The rise in energy prices was partly due to Europe's self-imposed sanctions on Russian energy.
The deeply destructive energy policies being implemented in Germany originate in a band of groupthinking green activists who over decades have secured an iron grip on the political levers.
Those who dodged the electric car bullet are feeling pretty smug right now, as the value of second-hand EVs plummets, free chargers vanish and the price of electricity soars.
It took 50 years of fearmongering before Germany finally shut down its last nuclear power station this weekend. Many fear this will only worsen the energy crisis and ordinary Germans will pay a heavy price.
Once the public understand the extent of the deception over climate, and the damage done to the economy and our children's future, the trickery over Covid is going to look peripheral, says Andrew Montford.
The problem with the two goals of aiming for growth and cutting carbon dioxide emissions is that the evidence suggests they are mutually exclusive, writes David Craig.
Europe has made it through the winter largely without incident. But we didn’t avoid blackouts thanks to our leaders' wise and far-sighted choices. We basically got lucky, with one of the warmest winters on record.
A teacher explains in the Daily Sceptic how to teach children about climate change without scaring the bejesus out of them.
Recently released figures on the state of British public finances make for grim reading. In December of 2022, the Government borrowed more money than it had in any other December since records began in 1993.
A damning indictment of the Net Zero political project has been made by one of the world’s leading nuclear physicists. Dr. Wallace Manheimer has said abandoning fossil fuel will spell the end of modern civilisation.
