The NHS is in Crisis – So Why is it Hiring Diversity Managers on £55,000 a Year?
March 31, 2023 4:00 pm 25 CommentsThe NHS is in crisis – so why is it hiring diversity managers on £55,000 a year, at a total cost of £40 million, asks David Craig.
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Let’s All Play the ‘Growth vs Green’ Game
March 7, 2023 9:00 am 25 CommentsThe problem with the two goals of aiming for growth and cutting carbon dioxide emissions is that the evidence suggests they are mutually exclusive, writes David Craig.
No, Wind and Solar Power is Not “Cheaper Than Coal”
February 8, 2023 7:00 am 16 CommentsThe latest claim from Net Zero activists is that wind and solar power is now cheaper than coal in the U.S. But that's a fiction created by the $369bn of new Government subsidies, writes David Craig.
Somalia’s Drought is Nothing to Do With Climate Change
January 21, 2023 11:00 am 16 CommentsSix Somali children have written an open letter to world leaders calling for action on climate change to end the drought ravaging their country. But there's no correlation between CO2 and rainfall in the country.
Will Amanda Pritchard Be the NHS’s Cressida Dick – Ineffective and Diversity-Obsessed?
January 17, 2023 1:00 pm 26 CommentsDiversity-obsessed Cressida Dick's time in charge of the Met saw a huge climb in rates of crime. Is Amanda Pritchard about to have a similar catastrophic tenure at the helm of the increasingly woke, crisis-hit NHS?
Stephen Fry Jets Around the World to Lecture the Rest of Us About Climate Change
December 14, 2022 3:14 pm 34 Comments'National treasure' Stephen Fry has been jetting around the world creating a new documentary to lecture us about climate change and how we all need to stop using so much fossil fuel.
Rising Nonsense About Sea Levels From the BBC
September 23, 2022 5:36 pm 20 CommentsThe BBC has claimed that sea levels could rise by a metre by 2100. In fact, at the current rate the rise would be around just 10cm – and most of that would be subsidence, not meltwater.
Are Pakistan’s Floods Really the “Worst in History” Because of Climate Change?
September 2, 2022 5:10 pm 25 CommentsPakistan's floods are a tragedy, but they are not the 'worst in history', at least in terms of human deaths, and there are more obvious causes behind them than climate change.
There is No Food Crisis – If Only We Stopped Burning it as ‘Green’ Biofuel
August 8, 2022 7:20 pm 19 Comments3.5M tonnes of EU palm oil go to make biodiesel – the same as the amount of sunflower oil exported by Ukraine and Russia combined. There's only a food crisis because we burn food rather than use it to feed people.
Is it Really True, as Climate Change Activists Claim, That 97% of Scientists Agree With Them?
October 27, 2021 6:16 pm 5 CommentsThe claim that 97% of scientists believe in man-made global warming is misleading. It's based on a dodgy survey that few journalists or politicians have bothered to scrutinise.