Big Picture News, Informed Analysis

Canadian journalist Donna Laframboise. Former National Post & Toronto Star columnist, past vice president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

Trudeau Meets Greta, Scorns Truckers

Canadian elites have declared war on ordinary people.

April 15, 2022

Meet Canada’s Trampled Lady

Police horses trampled two protesters in Ottawa five days ago. One suffered a broken collarbone. The identity and condition of the other remains unknown.

February 24, 2022

Trudeau Denies Truckers Fair Hearing: News Report from India

Indian news channel says public support for truckers is overwhelming, but Canada’s Prime Minister has responded with scorn and disrespect.

February 2, 2022

The Mechanic in the Freedom Convoy

Embedded with the truckers. Repairing their rigs. Telling the world what he sees and hears.

January 31, 2022

Canadian Truckers: Fighting for Freedom

Truck drivers have kept our supermarkets stocked & hospitals supplied during this pandemic. The Canadian government is now threatening their jobs. 

January 26, 2022

Four Football (Soccer) Deaths in Four Days

The normal rate is 7 per year.

January 5, 2022

They DID Say Vaccines Would Stop Virus Spread

The COVID narrative is changing quickly. It’s important to notice how.

January 3, 2022

News Story Relies Solely on Pharma Funded Doctor

When a doctor has financial relationships with 4 vaccine manufacturers, every word he utters about vaccines is suspect.

November 29, 2021

Awash in Big Pharma Funding, Expert Urges COVID Vaccines for Kids

Canadian doctor James Kellner receives $3 million from pharmaceutical giants, but is portrayed as a neutral, disinterested expert by journalists.

November 24, 2021

Day 18: Vaccine Voices Film Festival

From Israel: the Testimonies Project (1 hr, 7 min)

September 23, 2021

Toronto Star on Unvaxxed: ‘Let them die’

Canada’s largest newspaper foments hate & hysteria toward the non-vaccinated.

August 30, 2021

Doctor Resigns Over Lack of Informed Consent

Israeli committee decides pregnant women don’t need to be told COVID vaccine risk is wholly unknown.

June 30, 2021

Doctors, Lawyers & COVID

Hospital refuses to treat ICU patient with Ivermectin. Family hires a lawyer, secures a court order, and she recovers.

June 2, 2021

Doctors Shout from the Rooftops About COVID Miracle Drug

Accomplished, experienced ICU doctors say Ivermectin can end the global pandemic. But health authorities don’t want to hear about it, and journalists won’t report it.

May 31, 2021

Remember When N95 Masks Were Anti-Science?

Ontario, Canada began by properly protecting medical staff from COVID infection. Citing the WHO, it then reversed course.

May 26, 2021

Engineered Viruses: Not a New Concern

The pandemic may well be linked to lab experiments in China. A thorough investigation is warranted.

May 19, 2021

Natural Virus or Lab Experiment Gone Wrong?

Seasoned science journalist sparks new round of debate.

May 17, 2021

Reckless Journalism & the Uphill Battle to Correct the Record

Rather than behaving responsibly during a moment of crisis, the New York Times printed inflammatory, unconfirmed gossip. It fanned fear & fed hysteria.

March 31, 2021

Glenn Greenwald Clobbers the Mainstream Media

Watching journalists closely. Calling a spade a spade.

March 22, 2021

China: Land of the Anal Swab

Travelers to China are now subject to anal penetration by the authorities.

March 8, 2021

The Media is Now Malevolent

Democracy is not served by censorship, malice, derision, and denunciation.

February 24, 2021

Climate Assemblies: Faking Democracy

What colour dinner plate do you want your bread and water on?

February 8, 2021

The Climate Summit’s Fake Nobel Laureate

Chemist William Moomaw has never won a Nobel Prize. But advertisements for his speaking engagements say otherwise.

January 25, 2021

We Don’t Know if COVID Vaccines Are Safe

Let us be adults. Let us be honest. At this stage, no one knows what will happen when COVID vaccines are given to millions of people.

December 16, 2020

Vaccines, Legal Liability & Learning from History

Governments are shielding vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits.

December 14, 2020

Halloween Lynching of Innocent Family

Canada’s national broadcaster is careful not to prejudge French priest’s attacker, but denounces Halloween display as racist.

November 2, 2020

Nice Idea, Shaky Evidence

Media stories about Norway winters & positive thinking lack proper skepticism.

October 5, 2020

About That Sharp Rise in Climate Concern

Poll sponsors say climate attitudes have been ‘remarkably consistent’ over two decades.

September 2, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine & the Judgment of History

How a safe, well-understood malaria drug was demonized as a COVID-19 treatment. Because a politician said good things about it.

August 24, 2020

What Happened to ‘Without Fear or Favor’?

New York Times journalists want news stories vetted prior to publication. They want mandatory & ongoing newsroom sensitivity training. The Gray Lady is now a place where journalists fear each other.

August 3, 2020

WHO Now Says China Didn’t Report Coronavirus – Corrects Timeline

After implying for months that China followed international rules, the World Health Organization backtracks.

July 20, 2020

How the Ugliest Climate Fairy Tale Won

A preposterous climate yarn has taken center stage.

June 29, 2020

What Went Wrong in Massachusetts?

State hit disproportionately hard by the coronavirus.

June 10, 2020

Fantasy Wish List Masquerades as Climate Poll

Green lobby group invites public to endorse green fantasies.

June 1, 2020

Racism, Magical Thinking & the Coronavirus

Rather than quarantining travelers, our leaders chose a course of action that led to entire countries being locked down. 

May 25, 2020

This Blog Will Return May 20th

In the interim, I recommend this brilliant essay on what the coronavirus has taught us.

April 22, 2020

The Legacy of UN Climate Activist, Rajendra Pachauri

Journalists spent years falsely calling the IPCC chairman a Nobel laureate and the world’s ‘top climate scientist.’

February 17, 2020

Here’s Who Pressured the Medical Journal

Do we want to live in a world in which medical journals are afraid to publish certain conclusions?

January 29, 2020

Cancel Culture Hits Medical Journals

Anti-meat experts ask external bodies to suppress rival research.

January 27, 2020

Newspapers: Betrayers of the Public’s Trust

Journalists abandon professionalism, repudiate free speech. 

January 22, 2020

Journalists: We Want Censorship

Official editorial in Canadian newspaper calls for climate skeptics to be silenced.

January 8, 2020

Decades of Public Opinion: Climate Change Not on the Radar

Vast majority don’t mention climate when asked about important problems.

January 6, 2020

Tipping Points: The Big Picture

The UN said we were at a tipping point in 2007. And in 2009. In a single decade, the media talked about climate tipping points 14,000 times.

January 1, 2020

10 Years Ago Today

Scientists have been making fools of themselves for some time. Yet they seem to pay no price.

December 4, 2019

Blaming Climate Change: Bogus Wildlife Videos

Nature videos from National Geographic, Netflix, and the BBC can’t be trusted.

December 2, 2019

The Great Global Warming Swindle

If we’ve heard only one side of a debate, we can’t claim to be fully informed.

November 27, 2019

Climategate: 10 Year Anniversary Reading List

Forget the shallow, conformist media narrative. There’s plenty of sound, perceptive analysis.

November 20, 2019

The Corals That Don’t Exist

Peer-reviewed science is contradicted by the real world.

November 18, 2019

William Ripple, Eco Activist on the Public Dime

Ecology professor’s political opinions published repeatedly in scientific journals.

November 13, 2019

Scientists and Their Petitions

Most of the Alliance of World Scientists 23,000 members DID NOT sign the climate emergency petition. But professional journalists didn’t notice.

November 11, 2019

Protecting Society From ‘Science’

Scientific research, published in influential places, can change the world. For ill as well as for good.

November 4, 2019

The UVic, Susan Crockford Story Continues

Refuse to talk to the reporter. Afterward, accuse her of ‘multiple factual inaccuracies.’ Isn’t academia grand?

October 30, 2019

The Myth of the Apolitical Scientist

It’s absurd to say scientists are only now speaking up. Reuters publishes egregious climate propaganda.

October 28, 2019

Greta, Germany & Green Energy

Germany has spent a ton of money. The result? Its previously robust electricity grid is now broken.

September 11, 2019

Astonishing Media Misinformation About the IPCC

We teach children that a summary should accurately reflect a longer document. But things are topsy-turvy in the land of the IPCC.

September 4, 2019

Smart Commentary about the Amazon Fires

There is no crisis. But there’s lots of melodrama, double standards, and cherry picking.

September 2, 2019

Fake News and Fires in the Amazon

Media outlets are supposed to be more reliable than your brother-in-law, but that seems less true every day.

August 28, 2019

Google, Groupthink & the Media

The media fosters intellectual conformity. Is Google taking the same path?

August 7, 2019

The Elites, the Media & the Little People

Google pampers the already pampered at $20 million climate extravaganza.

August 5, 2019

Marcel Crok’s Climate Adventures

Dutch journalist maligned by TED head office.

July 22, 2019

The Climate Curse: Reprogramming Our Moral Compass

The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice. So do we.

July 17, 2019

Failed Replication of Famous Research Rejected

When scientific journals decline to address their own fake news.

June 26, 2019

Extreme Politics: The Roger Pielke Jr. Story

Rabid dog climate enforcers will destroy you without conscience or regret.

June 10, 2019

Heat Wave Hysteria Coming Soon

You will be encouraged to believe things about weather-related deaths that are the opposite of the truth.

June 5, 2019

Some Comic Relief

Humour is healthy.

May 29, 2019

Refuting the Smear Machine – Part 1

When a journalist thinks for herself about climate change, insults & fabrications follow.

May 22, 2019

Defending My Honour

Anonymous allegations are republished by an allegedly respectable website.

May 20, 2019

Street Preacher Greta Thunberg

Don’t you listen to the street preacher. He ain’t nothing but a false teacher. 

April 29, 2019

Peter Ridd vs The Dishonourables

A powerful bureaucracy bullies, berates, isolates & intimidates a lone critic.

April 24, 2019

The Splendid Peter Ridd Court Judgment

James Cook University took 28 separate actions against Professor Ridd. Each of them, including his termination, has been declared unlawful.

April 22, 2019

Mice, Medical Research & the Media

Reputable media outlets routinely mislead the public when reporting the latest scientific discoveries.

April 17, 2019

10th Anniversary Fundraiser

If I’ve helped you better understand the climate debate, the IPCC, the shortcomings of academic research, or that Borg-like entity known as the United Nations, please let me know.

April 15, 2019

Migrants prone to hatred & intolerance: UN

It’s April Fools’, but this is no hoax. Report commits the sin it condemns.

April 1, 2019

The Media & the WWF Torture Scandal

News organizations have turned their own journalists into WWF cheerleaders.

March 20, 2019

The WWF Expose, the Media & Earth Hour

A year-long BuzzFeed investigation accuses the WWF of horrific human rights abuses.

March 18, 2019

Journalist George Russell, Haiti & the UN

Journalists who specialize in the UN are rare; George Russell’s retirement is unhappy news.

February 20, 2019

Zombie UN Body Now Regulates Your Car

An obscure UN body established to rebuild WW2 Europe, is now determining international automobile brake standards.

February 18, 2019

Global Poverty Can’t Be Solved With Immigration

Economic migrants are distinct from refugees running for their lives. But the two are increasingly blurred.

January 7, 2019

Climate Skeptics: The Despised Minority

Vilifying climate heretics remains socially acceptable. 

January 2, 2019

UN Migration Pact: Normalizing State Censorship

Which parts of this agreement do our governments intend to implement? Which parts do they repudiate?

December 5, 2018

Academic Journals: High Stakes, Few Safeguards

If a journal’s decision can make or break your career, its employees wield extraordinary power.

November 28, 2018

French Carbon Tax Protests

Yellow vests imposed on motorists become powerful anti-government symbol.

November 26, 2018

Competing Worldviews

Attempting to understand why people vote the way they do is more useful than sneering at half a country’s population.

November 5, 2018

IPCC: Redefining ‘Global Warming’ at the 11th Hour

On what planet is it OK for politically-determined definitions to supersede those written by actual scientists?

October 22, 2018

The IPCC’s Cynical Ploy

The latest IPCC report was a setup – a cynical ploy to produce alarmist media headlines that succeeded beautifully.

October 15, 2018

The Last Chance Climate Saloon

November 2000 and December 2009 were both supposed to be our last, best chance to save the planet from climate disaster. This week, the media is once again spreading this message.

October 10, 2018

Which Women Should We Believe?

Hundreds of women insist the current US Supreme Court nominee is tremendously supportive of female equality. Why doesn’t every news story offer us a chance to believe them?

October 3, 2018

Stories Versus Facts

Last week, in a sickening spectacle, grownups behaved as though a vague, wholly unproven story involving teenagers 30+ years ago is relevant to whether a candidate is fit to be a US Supreme Court judge.

October 1, 2018

Third Quarter Report

The most smug, most self-indulgent, least curious journalists in history.

September 28, 2018

BBC Ignores Widely Publicized IPCC Problems

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is essentially a law unto itself, an entrenched culture with no meaningful oversight mechanisms.

September 26, 2018

The BBC’s Naive View of the UN’s Climate Machine

The BBC is a huge bureaucracy. The geniuses running it have declared another bureaucracy – the UN’s IPCC – a font of scientific truth. How pathetic.

September 24, 2018

Fake School Shootings

A US government report about school shootings is riddled with errors.

September 10, 2018

Sweden Democrats: That’s Enough Now

How should women dress in public given the religious views of some immigrants? Jimmie Åkesson says men ‘who feel they can’t control themselves’ are welcome to wear blindfolds.

September 7, 2018

Fooling Canadians About Refugees

As a historic number of people were applying for asylum last year, journalists insisted nothing unusual was going on.

August 29, 2018

Evidence Free Journalism

The Swedish political party that has been shouting itself hoarse about anti-Semitism is the one journalists keep describing as neo-Nazi.

August 27, 2018

Beware Swedish Election Coverage

Every time the media mentions the Sweden Democrats, we’re reminded of sins decades in the past. But there’s no parallel, incessant reminder of the Green Party’s documented links to the Nazis.

August 24, 2018

The Earthquake About to Hit Sweden

Sweden’s population: 10 million. France and UK total population: 133 million. Sweden has accepted more asylum seekers than France and UK combined.

August 22, 2018

Trump, Censorship & Media Bias

Journalists can’t seem to help themselves. Every blessed thing gets twisted.

August 20, 2018

Public Trust & Press Freedom

There’s a world of difference between denouncing media bias and sending in the military to close television stations.

August 15, 2018

The Media’s War on the Public

When Donald Trump rails against fake news he speaks for millions of people who are tired of being silenced and smeared.

August 13, 2018

Media Memes

The covers of news magazines such as Time and The Economist used to tell the truth.

August 6, 2018

Polar Bear Dies, National Geographic Lies

Iconic magazine admits it published fake news. Makes no promise not to do it again.

August 3, 2018

Anthropocene: The Media’s Fake Geological Epoch

Journalists declaring something to be the case before it has actually happened is outrageous and unethical.

July 6, 2018

Polar Bears & the Sleazy New York Times

A gang of 14 scientists attack a lone scientist in an academic journal. Erica Goode justifies & amplifies the assault in the Times.

April 13, 2018

Sverige Begår Självmord

I Sverige dog pressfrihet för 25 år sedan.

[Swedish translation of previous post]

March 5, 2018

Swedish for Suicide

Freedom of the press died in Sweden 25 years ago.

March 5, 2018

Muzzling the Tolerant, Celebrating the Intolerant

Journalists think their job is to shame ordinary people into silence lest they say something politically incorrect about the scale and pace of European immigration.

March 2, 2018

When Government Makes You Fat

After the high-carbohydrate Food Pyramid was introduced, diabetes shot through the roof.

January 19, 2018

Were Aerosol Spray Cans Really a Threat?

Politicians will pass laws – and regulators will issue bans – long before there’s strong evidence of harm.

January 17, 2018

Dangerous Climate Change: No Smoking Gun

The claim that human activity is triggering a climate apocalypse is based on expert opinion and best estimates.

January 8, 2018

Climate Change is Normal

Insisting that ‘climate change is real’ is like insisting that blood is red.
 

January 5, 2018

Re-Launching January 1st

This blog is adopting a new format. Posts will appear every Monday, Wednesday & Friday.

December 19, 2017

Suddenly Sick: The Foibles of Medical Science

Climate science and medical science have things in common. Including suspect behaviour on the part of the United Nations.

March 29, 2017

Science Funding Misinformation

A headline on a news story falsely claims that ‘9 countries outspend the US on science.’ In fact, America spends more than all nine combined.

March 5, 2017

Trump, Stalin & Fake News

Australia’s chief scientist falls for a fake news story, compares President Trump to Joseph Stalin.

February 6, 2017

Politicizing Science at the US Dept. of Energy

How does encouraging scientists to criticize government policy enhance scientific integrity?

January 27, 2017

Obama’s War on the Media

After promising the most transparent government in history, President Obama sharply curtailed press access, aggressively prosecuted leaks, and spied on journalists.

January 15, 2017

Wind Turbines: Lots of Problems, No Free Energy

In the dying days of 2016, three serious wind turbine malfunctions occurred in a small corner of Europe.

January 3, 2017

Our Ignorance is Breathtaking – We Should be Humble

We humans consistently miss the big picture. The world is improving dramatically, but our brains are addicted to worry and fear.

December 20, 2016

Fake News: Not New and Not Rare

The fairy tale about Nobel laureate climate experts demonstrates that just because you hear it on the BBC or read it in The New York Times doesn’t mean it’s true.

December 16, 2016

Power Transfer at Greenpeace

Why did Kumi Naidoo leave Greenpeace’s top job before a replacement was found? The Guardian prints clichés and asks no hard questions.

January 12, 2016

COP21’s Green Gibberish

The Paris climate summit is many things, including a cultural spectacle wrapped in lightweight media fluff.

December 8, 2015

The Climate Show Carries On

The Paris climate summit is a gigantic photo op – where ineffectual political leaders will pretend to be environmental superheroes.

(includes details of my Dec. 2 talk in Paris)

November 18, 2015

Journalist Philippe Verdier Terminated (No Climate Free Speech, Part 6)

French weatherman Philippe Verdier is a free speech hero, a heretic whose livelihood has been stolen by the intolerant Church of Climate Change.

November 2, 2015

Flagrant Climate PR from the Australian Associated Press

A polar explorer is falsely described as a climate scientist in a news story; his activist connections aren’t reported.

October 29, 2015

French Weatherman Taken Off Air (No Climate Free Speech, Part 5)

Government official urges television weather presenters to use loaded language to help the climate cause. When one writes a critical book instead, he’s suspended from his job at a government-owned station.

October 16, 2015

Hoesung Lee: New IPCC Leader

The new IPCC chairman is an economist who, ironically, began his career with oil giant Exxon.

October 14, 2015

Getting Serious About Climate

For 15 years, we’ve been scolded and cajoled. As the December climate summit approaches, global warming rhetoric has grown seriously threadbare.

September 8, 2015

The Future Isn’t Ours to Dictate

It is not the business of today’s politicians to decide which energy sources will be used 85 years from now.

June 9, 2015

Kofi Annan’s Infantile Climate Morality

The disgraced former head of the UN smears skeptics while ignoring the dubious motivations of green opportunists.

May 5, 2015

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele: The Activist Who Wants to Run the IPCC

A Belgian activist scientist seeking leadership of the UN climate panel flies to Pakistan – and is fawned over by the media.

April 28, 2015

The Nobel Lie That Just Won’t Die

The Guardian newspaper once again wrongly calls Rajendra Pachauri a Nobel laureate. For good measure, it publishes a photo of him looking pious – while neglecting to mention the serious sexual offenses for which he is being investigated.

April 25, 2015

The United Nations’ Fake News Machine

A UN official delivers a speech. An account of that speech is written up to look like a news story. It gets published on a website funded by the UN. Casual readers are unlikely to appreciate that this is 100% spin.

April 22, 2015

Asking the Wrong Question

The climate scare rests on predictions produced by mathematical modeling. Freeman Dyson, one of the world’s finest scientific minds, says prediction isn’t what those models do – and that the climate conversation is ignoring important facts.

April 7, 2015

My Interview with India’s Sify News

The Indian media is examining the wider implications of Rajendra Pachauri’s resignation while Western journalists pretend not to see the sex scandal.

March 12, 2015

An Open Letter to the Men of TERI

TERI women have summoned the courage to speak up about the nature of their workplace. Will TERI’s men step forward and do their part?

March 11, 2015

Mumbai Columnist: ‘Creepy Crawlie’ Pachauri

In his home country, the former chairman of the IPCC is being called ‘Dr. Lecherous.’ A female journalist says she was ‘repulsed’ by the vain, pompous Pachauri she once met in person.

February 28, 2015

When Journalists Question Catastrophe

Unlike most journalists, Matt Ridley has done PhD-level work in the sciences. He has served as science editor for the Economist. One would think his views on the climate debate deserve a fair hearing. Instead, he is pilloried by climate extremists.

January 21, 2015

Hottest Year Claim: Minuscule Change in Imaginary Number

The amount by which the global temperature record has allegedly been broken is minuscule. Two one-hundredths of one degree isn’t what the public imagines when reporters talk about surging temperatures.

January 19, 2015

When the Media Makes You Weep

The BBC – one of the world’s most venerable news brands – has substantially altered the direction and meaning of a news story without advising its audience that it has done so. This is straight out of Orwell’s 1984.

September 1, 2014

Tiny Imaginations, Big Egos

We’re told that fewer butterflies is something to be alarmed about – and to blame humanity for. But change is normal and natural.

July 9, 2014

Screw the Poor, Our Eyes are Fixed on Tomorrow

Why are we not one-tenth as concerned about real children dying needlessly right now as we are about hypothetical future climate change?

June 8, 2014

Do Climate Scientists Approve? Who Cares?

Asking a group of climate scientists to comment on policy measures (as opposed to scientific questions) leads to some disturbing answers.

June 4, 2014

IPCC Wiki Launched – Volunteers Needed

Help annotate the new IPCC report so that it’s more user friendly – and more informative about its authors and source material.

May 11, 2014

Delusions Climatic & Otherwise @ the New York Times

The New York Times publishes pablum about the IPCC.

April 22, 2014

The IPCC, the Police & Greenpeace

Greenpeace isn’t anti-establishment anymore. Now it’s just another arm of the authoritarian, UN green machine.

April 14, 2014

The IPCC: Bar the Media, Welcome the Activists

In Berlin this week, environmental activists were allowed to attend a four-day meeting that journalists were denied access to. This is normal IPCC procedure.

April 12, 2014

Where’s the Science at the IPCC?

The UN’s climate panel claims to be a ‘scientific body.’ But it’s actually in the business of writing reports that rely on thousands of judgment calls. It’s time to stop pretending that fallible human judgment is ‘science.’

March 11, 2014

The Invisible Judith Curry

A bona fide climate scientist tells US Senators we have no idea whether human-caused global warming will be a serious problem. The media doesn’t report it.

January 17, 2014

Professor of Climate Change, Chris Turney

The distress call, the icebreakers, and the other scientific research.

January 2, 2014