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Bring Back Global Warming — Guest Post by Richard Law
'Rio de Janeiro is a city in South America. It is the capital of Brazil. It exports coffee and sugar. It has a tropical climate', so wrote the first form…
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If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?
Update See the Twitter thread (and account) for many more examples. NOBODY has been able to find a word yet that Experts haven't tied to "climate change." Got an email…
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The Less You Know About Climate, The More You Cry About Climate
Some things, the saying goes, are too good to check. Take the peer-reviewed paper "Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety" by Hannes Zacher and Cort W. Rudolph…
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Why Science Is Broken: Hillsdale Speech Video & Transcript Now Online
Video Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLFDjRS_928 And here is Greg's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VMcIp21mA Transcript I followed this closely during the speech, but did not adhere to it perfectly. I don't have a…
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Modulation of Ice Ages – Without CO2 — Guest Post by Ralph Ellis
Ellis sent me his paper "Modulation of Ice-ages via Precession and Dust-Albedo Feedbacks" in Geoscience Frontiers, and I found it rather intriguing. To greatly simplify: CO2 is good for you,…
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How To Guarantee There Will Be A Perpetual “Climate Emergency”
How to guarantee there will be a perpetual "climate emergency": Appoint a Minister of Climate Change. https://twitter.com/jamespeshaw/status/1631178382833770496 This Shaw is "Minister of Climate Change, Associate Minister for the Environment (Biodiversity)"…
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Climate Change & Gun Violence Research — A Mini-Play In One Act
SCENE: A PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY DRAMATIS PERSONAE: TWO AGING PRESTIGIOUS ACADEMICS "Hey, dude, we're, like scientists. Maybe we should, like, do some research." "Yeah, man. Do research." "Do research. We definitely…
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The Great Climate Anxiety Grift
I, dear reader, am not a climate denier. I do not deny there is a climate. Some do: even many, given the popularity of the phrase. Further---and this follows logically---I…