News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
If you wondered where the MSM get all their lurid stories attributing 'extreme weather' to climate change, look no further than a new job ad for a "researcher" focused on creating alarmist propaganda, says Chris Morrison.
The BBC has been caught spreading misinformation that hurricane Beryl is a "sign of a warming world". This pinning weather on humans is alarmist propaganda with no scientific basis, says Chris Morrison.
The UN claims that extreme weather has massively increased since 1970. Alex Kriel debunks this myth, pointing to work by Italian scientists which shows it is an illusion created by changes in surveillance.
There's been no increase in air turbulence accidents for 30 years, according to official figures. But that didn't stop the Guardian and BBC claiming otherwise in their reporting on the Singapore Airlines incident.
Comedy environmentalist Jim Dale and Dale Vince have both suggested that climate 'denial' should be a criminal offence. Is this desperation because it's becoming so obvious the evidence is against them?
On BBC Politics Chris Packham claimed "something called science" is evidence that the recent Dubai flooding was caused by climate change. But there's nothing scientific about the models that 'prove' that, says Paul Sutton.
It's been a wet winter and this is bad news for farmers, says Ben Pile. But with agricultural yields increasing sharply over recent decades, there's no reason to link it to climate change or start catostrophising about it.
All summer long there were "so great rains, that produced greater floods than in the memory of man", wrote John Locke in 1673. The 17th century was full of exactly the same climate catastrophising we hear today.
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.
'How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers' ran the extraordinary headline in the Independent. Needless to say, the story was a complete washout, says Chris Morrison.
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