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Al Gore rides the waves in Davos

Wrapping up our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos, we now turn to his claim that global warming is “causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach...

15 Mar, 2023| Science Notes

No trees in Davos

As someone recently complained about the Gnomes of Davos in their World Economic Forum: “What strikes me most about the WEF is how little disagreement there is. The largest matters...

25 Jan, 2023| OP ED Watch

Al Gore bombs in Davos

Continuing our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we come to his claim that CO2 emissions are causing “the rain bombs”. The what? We hadn’t heard of rain...

22 Feb, 2023| Science Notes

Al Gore gets dried up in Davos

We continue our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos, turning now to his claim that CO2 is “sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts”....

01 Mar, 2023| Science Notes

Al Gore melts down in Davos

Next up in our Fact Check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we get to his claim that carbon dioxide is “melting the ice and raising the sea level”. Well,...

08 Mar, 2023| Science Notes

Al Gore boils over in Davos

Note: this post has been edited to correct an earlier version. Continuing with our fact check on Al Gore’s epic rant in Davos, this week we turn to his claim...

08 Feb, 2023| Science Notes

Al Gore cries an atmospheric river in Davos

Continuing with our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we come to his claim that you-know-what is “creating these atmospheric rivers”. And “atmospheric rivers” is, admittedly, a very...

15 Feb, 2023| Science Notes

Al Gore goes nuclear in Davos

It might seem like a fool’s errand to fact check Al Gore. But the man does have a big audience and someone’s got to do it so we rush in....

01 Feb, 2023| Science Notes

What a real crisis looks like

...the longstanding demands of the Davos set has been that financial markets must take account of the world-ending, extinction-level risks of climate change, in response to which the market has...

18 Mar, 2020| News Roundup

Add history to her study list

...once he’s said all that, he says some other stuff too that too few people seem brave enough to say. With respect to her call in Davos in February that...

11 Mar, 2020| OP ED Watch

Looking at the Sun

...reconstruction, after the name of Frölich’s institute, the Physical Meteorological Observatory in, ahem, Davos, it had the convenient effect of ruling out the sun as a factor in climate change....

01 Jun, 2022| Backgrounders

Heavy breathing

...at eight she knew the science was settled), on which basis she has spoken at the Davos World Economic Summit and the UN climate summit, done a TEDx talk and...

20 Mar, 2019| News Roundup

We're so sneaky

...Worrall adds, “The Great Reset is a public programme promoted by the World Economic Forum, the group which holds a $50,000 / ticket event every year in Davos, Switzerland. A...

24 Nov, 2021| OP ED Watch

Or you can just eat it

Among the less revolting things the people living high off the hog at Davos want the rest of us to consume is seaweed. Sorry, “sea vegetable”. And sure, it beats...

08 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

Don't Panic!

...you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is. Greta Thunberg, Davos World Economic Forum, January 2019 John Robson And if you try to ask questions,...

03 Jan, 2021| Backgrounders

If only it were mere hypocrisy

...hence are part of a giant conspiracy against you directed from Davos. Trudeau, like John Kerry, simply applies a different standard to himself than to you because he really, shamelessly,...

15 Jun, 2022| OP ED Watch

Climate Emergency Tour: Ski Resorts Edition

...the alarmists and they’ll know what posh spots to avoid. But good luck scaring them away from their annual enclave in Davos, given the exceptional 2017-2018 snow season at Klosters....

08 Jan, 2020| Climate Emergency Tour

Time for a coup

...huge hero, addressing the Davos forum and the UN Climate Conference, having more Twitter followers than Green Party leaders, getting nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize to Establishment applause and...

24 Apr, 2019| OP ED Watch

Great leap nowhere

...COVID just came along this spring. And nobody who knows anything about anything could be persuaded that Schwab or the Davos set or Prince Charles or any of those people...

25 Nov, 2020| OP ED Watch

You thought we meant it?

...Davos People acknowledged [h/t Ray Pennings in Cardus’s “Insights”] that there were concerns over ESG, only to brush them aside with their aristocratic brush: “ESG has been under increasing pressure...

15 Feb, 2023| OP ED Watch
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