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Climate Hysteria: Rising Number Of Children Treated For ‘Eco-Anxiety’
Read moreRising numbers of children are being treated for “eco-anxiety”, experts have said, as they warn parents against “terrifying” their youngsters with talk of climate catastrophe. “Their fear is of environmental doom – that we’re all going to die.” Protests by groups such as Extinction Rebellion, the recent fires in the Amazon and apocalyptic warnings by the […]
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Future Of Frankfurt Motor Show In Doubt After Climate Protests
Read moreThe future of the world’s biggest motor show in Frankfurt has been thrown into doubt after a weekend of environmental protests disrupted the industry’s gala event. Bernhard Mattes, the outgoing chief of the German car lobby the VDA, which organises the gathering, refused to commit to a return to the city, which has hosted the […]
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Volkswagen CEO: Climate Hysteria Is Killing Germany’s Auto Industry
Read moreClimate change protests against cars in general and stricter CO2 emission limits imposed by the European Union are pushing Germany’s vital auto industry to the “brink of collapse,” Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess said. “The current campaign against individual mobility and thus against conventional cars is reaching existence-threatening proportions,” Diess told Spiegel Online. The VW chief […]
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Germany’s Green Suicide: Another $60 Billion To Weaken Its Struggling Economy
Read moreBERLIN (REUTERS) – Climate protection measures that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and their Social Democrat coalition partners want to unveil next week will cost at least 40 billion euros (S$61 billion) until 2023, a person briefed on the talks told Reuters on Saturday (Sept 14). “We agree that something needs to be done but it […]
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Green Flop: Britons Turn Away From Solar Panels As Subsidies End
Read moreSolar panel installations have slumped as suppliers struggle to cope with the end of subsidies and a damaging mis-selling scandal. European Union rules forcing the government to quadruple VAT on certain installations from next month is expected to further damage the industry considered crucial to the UK meeting its ambitious carbon reduction targets. Installations last year […]
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Green Super Flop: Most Powerful Greenhouse Gas On The Rise ‘Due To Green Energy Boom’
Read moreIt’s the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years, the BBC has learned. Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, is widely used in the electrical industry to prevent short circuits and accidents. But leaks of the little-known gas in the UK and the rest of the EU in 2017 […]
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Corn & Cotton Output Push Brazil Harvest To Record High
Read moreBrazil’s grains and oilseeds crop rose by 6.4pc to a record 242mn metric tonnes (t) in the 2018-2019 harvest, boosted by increased corn and cotton output. The total compared with 227.7mn t from last year’s crop, the country’s agricultural statistics agency Conab said in its final report on the season ended 30 June. The corn […]
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British Army Plans To Phase Out Fossil Fuels To Attract Eco-Friendly Recruits
Read moreThe British Army could phase out petrol and diesel vehicles in a bid to attract ecofriendly recruits, the Chief of the General Staff has said. Gen Sir Mark Carleton-Smith said today’s military equipment would probably be the last to be “dependent on fossil fuel engines”, and that a move toward clean energy would be beneficial […]
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WMO Secretary-General Denies Climate Heresy
Read moreThe Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Petteri Taalas, has been accused of being forced into an embarrassing climb-down. In an interview with a Finnish newspaper last week, Taalas had hit out at what he called climate ‘extremists and doomsters’, and called for a wider range of voices to be heard in the climate debate. […]
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Silenced By The Eco-Warrior Establishment
Read moreBen Heard, an Australian campaigner for nuclear energy, has been describing how he is hounded by environmental organisations, in particular Friends of the Earth, because of his views. I have been called a racist,’ he says. ‘I have been called corrupt. I am constantly called a lobbyist, which I am not . . . I […]
