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Saving the Rhino by Farming Them

Jason Gilchrist Edinburgh Napier University theconversation.com With all the terrible news on climate change, it’s easy to lose track of what’s happening with particular species. So, in case you missed it, a new report has bad news for Earth’s five surviving species of rhino. Poaching for

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Brazil’s Big Cats and Wind Turbines

Bonner Cohen, PhD Bonner R. Cohen, PhD, is a senior policy analyst with CFACT, where he focuses on natural resources, energy, property rights, and geopolitical developments. Articles by Dr Cohen have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, the New York Post, the Washington Examiner, the

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A Tale of Two Whale Protection Groups

David Wojick David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. cfact.org There are two groups specializing in trying to protect the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, of which only about 340 critters remain alive, fewer every month, it seems.

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It Is Revoltin’ – the People Don’t Want EVs

It Is Revoltin’ – the People Don’t Want EVs

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history

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They Admit There Is No Benefit

They Admit There Is No Benefit

Larry Bell Larry Bell contributes posts at the CFACT site. He heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. He is also the author of “Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming

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Why We Never Run Out of Resources

Why We Never Run Out of Resources

Peter Jacobsen Peter Jacobsen is a Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org A new discovery of lithium this last week led to a flurry of headlines touting the finding as one of the biggest lithium deposits in history. The discovery comes amid fears that a shift

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Rural Groundswell Against ‘Net Zero’ Gains Strength

Rural Groundswell Against ‘Net Zero’ Gains Strength

As I wrote recently, Australia’s Nationals, unlike New Zealand’s National, are finally recovering some testicularity in the face of the Climate Cult. The Nationals, the old Country Party, are facing a grass-roots backlash from their constituents, over “Net Zero” policies in general, and “renewables” in particular. Because, unlike

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What Is the Truth about Carbon?

What Is the Truth about Carbon?

Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Political and business

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Why You Shouldn’t Buy the Climate Narrative

Jarrett Stepman Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ He is also the author of the book, The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com The White House and the legacy

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What Is the Point with Methane?

What Is the Point with Methane?

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines, although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week. peterallanwilliams.substack.com The last day of parliament this past week was briefly interrupted by Greenpeace protestors who dangled a banner over the

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Gene Mapping Key to Kakapo Survival

Gene Mapping Key to Kakapo Survival

Joseph Guhlin Peter Dearden University of Otago theconversation.com The genetic mapping of almost the entire kakapo population has shed new light on specific traits that will help conservation biologists in their efforts to save the critically endangered flightless night parrots. It also provides a blueprint for conservation genomics of

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Scandinavians Rely on Nukes and Oil

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history

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Facepalm: Paper Straws Aren’t Any better

I hate paper straws. Can’t stand the bastards. They stick to your lips and taste like, well, paper. So it was with a certain sense of schadenfreude that I read this. Paper straws are touted as an eco-friendly alternative to their classic plastic counterpart, but according to new research,

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Humans Are Good for the Planet

As I wrote recently, contrary to the gloomy Malthusianism of the green left, we humans may effectively never run out of resources. There may not be a Planet B, but we probably won’t ever need one. The Earth provides and will continue to do so. This, of course, flies

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Mad Mail

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve referred before on this Blog to my mail-bag and the constant inflow of unsolicited mail from strangers soliciting money, offering me “investment opportunities” and so on. It may be hard to believe but back in the 1980s I received at least 50 such missives

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Who Funds ‘Restore Passenger Rail’?

Restore Passenger Rail is slowly becoming the newest climate change cult that has taken over New Zealand. Started by James Cockle, who became famous for challenging James Shaw for co-leadership of the Green Party, the group has decided to fight for free public transport to reduce carbon emissions by glueing

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