Hyperpartisan “Fact-checkers” appear to find a video loophole in the 2019 policy change of not blocking opinion pieces The CO2 Coalition of climate scientists today published a Science & Policy Brief by Dr. Patrick Michaels, formerly the president of the association of state climatologists and an expert reviewer and author for the UN’s climate change […]

Barely a week after Cyclone Amphan struck the eastern and Cyclone Nisarga the western coast of India, a study by London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has downplayed the impact of climate change over a 100-year period saying that overall rains, drought and cyclones have not seen much deviations. Experts on climate science and climate change, however, do not agree with this […]

German ministers met Tuesday to thrash out an economic stimulus package to speed recovery from the coronavirus shutdown, with the vital auto industry and possible subsidies for it a key sticking point. Much of the wrangling is along familiar lines – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives favour tax cuts and other pro-business measures, while their centre-left […]

YouTuber and climate realist Naomi Seibt says governments across the world are cracking down on dissent, especially when it comes to contentions issues like the response to COVID-19 and climate change. Ms Seibt is currently being threatened with imprisonment by German authorities after she refused to take down three of her videos, with authorities claiming […]

Denmark will not consider how to raise taxation of greenhouse gas emissions until fall because of the current economic uncertainty, Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities Dan Jorgensen says. In 2019 Denmark set itself some of the world’s most ambitious environmental goals; they include a 70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, compared to […]

Making predictions about the future is notoriously difficult. With increasing sophistication, mathematical models have attempted to capture the mechanics of complex systems and processes. But how can we distinguish between models with genuine predictive power, and those which mislead us? And how can the uncertainty inherent in such predictions be adequately communicated to politicians? Joining […]

According to the predictions of a new international study headed by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, the faster melting of polar ice sheets than projected earlier may lead to a nearly 1.3 m rise in the ocean levels by 2100. The new study was published recently in Climate and Atmospheric Science and predicts sea-level rise considerably […]

Green activists achieve what they have campaigned for after YouTube removed ‘Planet of the Humans’. The documentary is now free to watch on Vimeo Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs’ controversial documentary Planet of the Humans has been removed from YouTube, where it was streaming for free — a move the pair calls a “blatant act of censorship.” EP Moore and writer-producer Gibbs […]