Sky News is telling more fairy tales and climate junk science.

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

https://news.sky.com/story/ofcom-launches-four-new-investigations-into-gb-news-programmes-over-due-impartiality-12935572

Sky News are bound by the same rules of impartiality that GB News are, who Sky were keen to gloat about a few months ago.

So why is that Sky can get away with flagrant and blatant bias on climate change? Two articles just this week could not exemplify this bias any better:

The first attacks Rishi Sunak’s slight watering down of Net Zero demands:

https://news.sky.com/story/delays-to-climate-targets-will-cost-renters-and-drivers-more-money-government-advisers-conclude-12982994

It gives column inches to a letter to the government from the Committee on Climate Change, which contains outright lies and mistruths, eg:

“that renters will have to pay more for energy in less efficient homes, while drivers who move to electric cars later rather than sooner will face higher costs through their vehicle’s lifetime.”

Sky fail to challenge this obvious nonsense or seek alternative views, as they have a duty to do.

For a start, renters will be much worse off once rent increases to pay for insulation are factored in, And if rents are frozen, landlords are likely simply to sell up. One of the reason for rising rents is the shortage of rental homes.

The claim about EVs is even more absurd. If drivers really are better off buying an EV, they would but one anyway. They refuse to because EVs are much more expensive.

The article then goes to publish anti-Sunak comments from:

• The UK Energy Research Centre
• Ford Motor Company (ignoring the motor manufacturers who agree with the delayed ban)
• The UK Director of Transport and Environment, a lobby group for “clean transport”
• The Conservative Environment Network, the extremist green fringe group of the Conservative Party

There is not a single comment supporting Sunak’s policy, never mind critical of any of these Net Zero policies. Nor is there any attempt by Sky to actually back up the CCC’s mendacious claims with actual data.

The next day, Sky published another ridiculous “we’re all going to drown” report:

https://news.sky.com/story/flood-risk-warning-for-up-to-15-million-homes-as-melting-arctic-sea-ice-set-to-trigger-rising-seas-12983167

The article includes a long debunked photo of a polar bear:

It headlines the  threat of 1.5m homes flooded out by rising seas, something which belongs in a fairy tale.

It claims:

“Arctic temperatures are rising four times as quickly compared to the global average, unleashing chaos on wildlife and the people who depend on the rapidly melting ice to survive.”

But fails to mention that Arctic temperatures plummeted at a similar rate between 1960 and 1990, that polar bears and other Arctic animals are thriving, and that the inhabitants of the Arctic are doing fine as well.

It says that “Dwindling ice could destabilise a North Atlantic current known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) “, another claim that has been thoroughly debunked by scientists as well.

The article ends with a plea for more funds by the Chair of the Polar Research sub-committee, whatever that is. Apparently giving scientists more money and an ice-breaker will solve all of our problems!

Of course, we know that OFCOM will never investigate bias at Sky News, because they both share the same set of political values.