Narratives of Existential Threats in the Climate and Covid Era Frank Furedi is a sociologist and social commentator. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Since the late 1990s, Frank has been widely cited about his views on why Western societies find it so difficult to engage with risk […]

There’s no guarantee scientific research is credible or accurate just because it has been peer-reviewed. Why is Facebook promoting this lie? Much of what we read, online and elsewhere, is incorrect. That’s life. But Facebook, a platform that helps people socialize, thinks it’s in the business of setting the record straight. It calls this process […]

Study finds even the tallest ice cliffs should support their own weight rather than collapsing catastrophically. Antarctica’s ice sheet spans close to twice the area of the contiguous United States, and its land boundary is buttressed by massive, floating ice shelves extending hundreds of miles out over the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean. When […]

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has supported Environment Minister Sussan Ley’s appraisal that the reef is “good” and has “a vibrant future”. A Senate estimates committee hearing on Monday heard a downgrading of the reef condition from poor to very poor was a long-term forecast based on no action being taken on climate […]

“It is a little depressing that after many years of being criticised for their insufficiently good understanding of statistics and lack of close engagement with the statistical community, the climate science community appears still not to have solved this issue.” The recently published open-access paper “How accurately can the climate sensitivity to CO2 be estimated from historical […]

As public discontent and concerns over the astronomical costs of Net Zero keep growing, green Tories are beginning to fret that they may soon be facing a disastrous political backlash. In the Sunday Telegraph, the UK’s former energy minister, Chris Skidmore, is unnerved by this likely prospect and warns that the Net Zero agenda will […]

Britain can achieve its climate change goals without lecturing people to eat less meat, the Environment Secretary has said, as he pushed back on calls to change diets and tax burgers. The Government’s climate change advisers this week said not enough was being done to encourage people to cut a fifth of their meat consumption […]

Today’s Times editorial reveals its absolute cluelessness about the looming economic and political cul-de-sac Boris Johnson and his government find themselves in as a result of their utopian Net Zero agenda. On the one hand the Times warns that achieving Net Zero ‘can be ruinously expensive’ and cites Steve Baker’s warning that burdening working families with its astronomical costs […]

The UK’s Climate Change Committee has attacked Boris Johnson for failing to deliver on cutting CO2 emissions, warning that his failure is putting COP26 at risk. The time has come to abolish this unelected group of eco-activists. The unelected climate activists and green energy lobbyists who run the Climate Change Committee have turned the institution […]

Ministers are set to approve a new North Sea oil and gas project months before Britain hosts a global climate change conference in Glasgow. Under proposals submitted to the government, developers behind the Cambo heavy crude field off the coast of the Shetland Islands expect to extract 150 million barrels of oil — roughly equivalent […]