Mike's Minute: Leadership and proportionality speak to credibility

It turns out fanciful and quite possibly nutty and dangerous thinking isn't limited to the Greens and Government-run supermarkets.

Dame Angela Eagle, who is Environment Secretary in the UK, has announced the need for people to take the burgeoning El Niño so seriously that we need to start stocking up on food.

Chris Morrison: Recent Temperature Falls Likely to Put a Dampener on ‘Hottest Year Evah’ Stories

Stand by for another bout of ‘Hottest Year Evah’ stories as the mainstream media pursues its campaign to induce mass climate psychosis and prepare the ground for the oncoming Net Zero catastrophe. Alas, enjoy it only a little while longer since this story may have to be retired after putting in such a sterling propaganda shift. Global temperatures are falling like a stone, while the oceans are cooling at a remarkably rapid rate. In the U.K., the year is likely to show a second annual temperature fall since the alleged ‘record’ year in 2022.

Barry Brill: 'Greenhouse Theory’ is Threatened by the Confounding 2023 Warmth

In March 2023, sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic began to shoot up.

By June the extent of sea ice around Antarctica was by far the lowest on record. Based on the 30-year midwinter trend, a patch of sea-ice six times larger than New Zealand was suddenly missing.

At that time, there was no El Niño. There had been nothing unusual in the slow build-up of greenhouse gas emissions

Viv Forbes: Floods and Droughts are Nothing New

There is nothing unusual about today’s floods, fires, droughts, homelessness and hunger – they have always been part of the human story. But satellite technology allows us to track them better and our world-wide media revels in disaster-reporting, bringing tearfully tragic scenes into every living room, every night. 

Population growth means that more people are affected by weather extremes, but there is no evidence that floods and droughts are getting worse.