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£40m For Caribbean Green Energy Schemes. 5.6 Million British Homes Going Hungry. Charity Begins At Home?
In the 1920s, floods, droughts, storms and wildfires killed around 485,000 people a year. Today it’s about 12,000, on a planet with more than four times as many people. Lucy Biggers asked the question the climate lobby can’t answer: if the climate is so deadly, why doesn’t it show up in the death toll?
Climate Disaster Deaths Are Down 97.5%. So Where Exactly Is The Climate Emergency?
In the 1920s, floods, droughts, storms and wildfires killed around 485,000 people a year. Today it’s about 12,000, on a planet with more than four times as many people. Lucy Biggers asked the question the climate lobby can’t answer: if the climate is so deadly, why doesn’t it show up in the death toll?
The World’s Most Expensive Electricity Is Made In Britain: Here’s Exactly Where Your Money Goes
Britain now pays more for electricity than any of the 92 countries in Bjørn Lomborg’s IEA-based ranking, 2.7 times the US and 3.7 times China. It isn’t bad luck. It’s a stack of grid charges, green subsidies and carbon taxes added to every bill to keep a weather-dependent grid running. Here they are, line by line.
New Satellite Study Puts Greenland’s Ice Loss At About Half The Official Estimates, And Even Those Are 0.01% A Year
A new Chinese satellite study puts Greenland’s ice loss at about 120 billion tonnes a year, about half the international benchmark for the same years and 55% below NASA’s headline 264. Even the biggest official figure is about one hundredth of one per cent of the ice sheet a year.
BBC Bitesize And Net Zero: When A Lesson Becomes A Campaign
A BBC Bitesize net zero lesson tells 11 to 14-year-olds they “may need to fly less, eat less meat” and asks if they could petition the council. Is that a lesson or a campaign?
The Greening Of The Deserts: How Rising CO₂ Is Making The Planet Greener
Satellites show a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated land has greened since the early 1980s, and models put most of it down to CO₂. Why is this never on the news?