Climate Alarmism
The German government is considering plans to implement new laws that would ban members of the general public from driving privately owned vehicles during the weekends.
The plan was revealed by Germany’s Transport Minister Volker Wissing who argues that the drastic measures may be necessary in order to meet the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” targets for “fighting climate change.”
According to Reuters, Wissing is threatening to introduce the ban through the Summer months before gradually expanding it.
The calls come despite the fact that official data shows that “greenhouse emissions” in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, fell to the lowest level in 70 years in 2023.
Nevertheless, the transport sector has still been consistently failing to meet its “Net Zero” goals.
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Read MoreAn amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years. This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analysing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2.
The Chinese findings are important in helping destroy the claim that many low-lying islands will simply disappear beneath the waves in the near future due to human-induced climate change. They show how shoreline changes are a persistent and ongoing process that is subject to many natural and human influences.
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Read MoreWealthy households are taking the lion’s share of heat pump subsidies as even with generous taxpayer grants the £13,000 equipment is out of reach for those on lower incomes.
Analysis of government figures found that wealthier regions, including second-home hotspots, were far more likely to take advantage of a £7,500 voucher towards the installation of the green technology.
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Read MoreElon Musk’s announcement that Tesla will lay off ten percent of its workforce shocked many but it may be inline with figures that suggest the global demand for electronic vehicles is slumping across the world.
In the first quarter of 2024, the two biggest manufacturers of electronic vehicles, Tesla and its Chinese rival BYD reported dramatic sales drops compared against the same time last year.
BYD cut prices on its vehicles a
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Read More“CO2 is not a bad gas,” says Valentina Zharkova, a Professor at the Northumbria University in Newcastle, U.K. On the contrary, she points out, every garden centre uses it in its greenhouses to make plants lush and green. “We actually have a CO2 deficit in the world, and it’s three to four times less than the plants would like,” she notes, adding that the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere has been at much higher levels throughout our planet’s history than it is now.
In fact, over the last 140 million years, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been steadily decreasing and only now slightly starting to rise. It is currently around 420 parts per million (ppm), or 0.042%. 140 million years ago, it was estimated at 2,500 ppm (0.25%), or about six times higher. And it also meant a greener and more biodiverse world. If CO2 were to fall below 150 ppm (0.015%), it would already mean the extinction of vegetation and all other life. We came close to that during the last glacial maximum when it was at 182 ppm (0.018%).
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Read MoreFacebook’s censorship is totally out of hand, and its “independent and nonpartisan fact checks” are anything but. Now it is censoring Climate: The Movie. The supposed ‘fact checks’ provided by Science Feedback and Climate Feedback (they are two branches of the same organisation) have been shown many times to be both partisan and ideologically driven. The ‘fact check’ of Steve Koonin’s bestselling book Unsettled done by Climate Feedback was blisteringly criticised by the Wall Street Journal in a lead editorial by the WSJ editorial staff.
The editorial includes the following:
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Read MoreThey were envisaged as a simple, yet effective way of letting drivers know when they were speeding.
However, radar speed signs – famous for their alternating happy or angry faces – are being rendered useless in Scotland due to budgetary constraints and the country’s cloudy skies.
A Mail on Sunday investigation shows some cash-strapped councils have abandoned the network of signs, with many left broken and others unchecked for as long as five years.
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Read MoreTens of thousands of Japanese citizens have taken to the streets in huge rallies to protest threats to the nation’s sovereignty from globalist outside forces.
Protesters are demonstrating to pressure the Japanese government to reject the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Global Pandemic Treaty.”
As Slay News has reported, the Pandemic Treaty will grant the WHO, and its parent agency the United Nations, with sweeping global powers that override the laws of individual nations.
Under the treaty, the WHO will be able to enforce global lockdowns and other measures in the event of an “emergency” such as a pandemic or “climate change.”
After declaring an “emergency,” the WHO would have the power to roll out vaccine mandates, “climate lockdowns,” food rationing, travel recitations, mass censorship, and more.
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Read MoreCanadians can expect the first instalment of the 2024 Canada Carbon Rebate this week—but only if they filed their 2023 taxes by March 15.
Residents of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and the four Atlantic provinces who met the mid-March filing deadline will receive the first of four instalments April 15.
Those who filed their taxes after March 15 but before mid-April will receive their first instalment on May 15. Those who file their taxes after April 15 will have to wait until June or July for their rebate.
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Read MoreThe first instalment of the 2024 Canada carbon rebate will be delivered to some Canadians today as long as they filed their taxes by the middle of March.
Canadians living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and all four Atlantic provinces will receive the first of four instalments today if they filed their 2023 taxes by March 15.
Those who filed their taxes since March 15 will see their first instalment on May 15, while those who file after today will wait until June or July.
The payments are based on household size and for a family of four range from $190 in New Brunswick to $450 in Alberta.
Ottawa also has just launched a new online estimator that shows how much you should get from the rebates.
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