nosihle (2024-10-30). Government looks into insurance for climate-related disaster events. sanews.gov.za Government looks into insurance for climate-related disaster events | Government is exploring options for purchasing insurance for certain climate-related disaster events, where such a practice would not undermine budget sustainability. | Tabling the 2024 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in Parliament, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said climate-related disasters have intensified, damaging infrastructure and disrupting life. | "The increasing frequency and intensity of climate disasters is costly, and we must proactively work to reduce their impact on the fiscus and on society," the Minister said on…

Guest Blogger (2024-10-26). Clueless 'Fact Check' of Daily Sceptic Climate Article Descends into Pure Gibberish. wattsupwiththat.com If there was an award for worst fact check of the year, the recent attempt by the French state-owned Agence France-Presse (AFP) to smear the Daily Sceptic would be the clear favourite to win. Taking issue with our report of a recent paper published by Nature that found no "surge" in global temperatures since 1970, the AFP author Manon Jacob branded the article "misleading" purely on the basis of a random selection of what other commentators had written on social media. The so-called fact check is so bad it could well be used in future journalism schools as an example of how not to take a poke at well-sourced mate…