News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A potentially game-changing new film exploding climate change and Net Zero lies hits global social media screens today. Read Chris Morrison's review and watch it here.
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".
The Covid Inquiry appears to be "fundamentally biased" and is failing to examine the costs of lockdown, 55 professors and academics have told its Chairman, Baroness Hallett.
There has been no significant warming in one of the most climate-sensitive parts of the planet, analysis of Greenland ice core data show, casting further doubt on the alarmist climate narrative.
Wales's First Minister Mark Drakeford has told the Covid Inquiry that local Covid lockdowns were a "failed experiment". If they were an experiment, where was the consent, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
The journalist Ross Gelbspan, who led the fight against what he called "climate denialism", has passed away. Richard Burcik looks back at his claims and finds he was wrong about everything.
Still today, the U.S. CDC recommends that children as young as two wear a face mask to protect against Covid. When will public health officials accept the evidence that they don't work, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Does Michael Mann's libel victory over Mark Steyn mean we're saddled with his hockey stick climate chart forever, asks Tony Morrison. Or will good science eventually triumph over bad?
When the Cochrane review of face masks found no evidence of efficacy, Cochrane grandees disowned it. But is evidence now back in fashion, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
As the new Covid JN.1 variant spread over the winter, an Imperial College 'expert' predicted a "major surge in infections" and called for masks to return. This prediction, like all the others, did not age well.
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