News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Now Reuters runs a 'fact check' of a Daily Sceptic Arctic sea ice story. Being accused of "cherry picking" by an outfit that urges journalists to claim climate change makes mangoes taste worse is beyond ridicule.
Arctic sea ice has continued its recent recovery despite 2023 being claimed as the hottest year on record globally, according to data reported by Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute.
Cambridge University’s Centre for Climate Repair has a team in the Arctic busily experimenting with spraying seawater over the ice to try to thicken it in a plan branded "insane" and "dangerous".
According to the FT, Antarctica "faces a catastrophic cascade of extreme environmental events... that will affect climate around the world”. In fact, the extent of Antarctica sea ice is about the same as it was in 1966.
The BBC recently ran a headline claiming Antarctica sea ice had hit a "new record low", but inexplicably missing was the fact that since 1979 the trend in the ice extent is "near zero" and not statistically significant.
Arctic summer sea ice stopped declining a decade ago, but scientists have hidden this fact and the mainstream media never report it because it contradicts the official Net Zero narrative.
The Mirror is the latest newspaper to regurgitate the climate agitprop of Climate Central, making ludicrous claims about the rate at which sea levels will rise and submerge England.
Whisper it quietly, but the Greenland ice sheet may have made a net gain in size in the year to August 2022 after another year of massive winter gains and a short summer of ice loss.
Whisper it quietly, but Arctic ice is making a comeback. The coverage is now very close to the 1991-2020 average, well above a 2012 low point and higher than 2020. No sign of an alarmist catastrophe here.
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