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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder This week over 40,000 people will attend COP 27, the 27th gathering of the Conference of the Parties dealing with climate change. By contrast, 37 years ago a small group of 100 scientists met in the small town of Villach in Austria to begin talks on climate

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Was Fracking Really the UK’s Biggest Threat?

Joanne Nova cfact.org A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly

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Where’s the Gas?

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura The spectacular demise of past UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is symptomatic of the instability in the UK and Europe. There has been a notable swing to the right in recent European elections, with the mainstream media apoplectic that right-leaning Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers

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Deer Should Be Part of NZ’s Predator-Free Plan

Nic Rawlence University of Otago Nic Rawlence has an undergraduate degree and Master of Science from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and a PhD from the University of Adelaide (Australia). The impact of deer on New Zealand’s natural environment is never far from the headlines. Most recently,

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Tuatara Are Returning to the Mainland

Sarah K. Lamar Diane Karen Ormsby Nicola Jane Nelson Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Sarah is a PhD candidate in Ecology and Biodiversity at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, where her research focuses on modeling the reproductive fitness of male tuatara. More broadly, Sarah’s interests

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Flies Come Buzzing around the Green Honeypot

Flies Come Buzzing around the Green Honeypot

Nothing tells us that “green” is a massive scam so clearly as that it’s attracting so many scammers. Flies are irresistibly attracted to honey, and the biggest honey-pot right now is the massive piles of taxpayer’s “green” cash. A close second is the virtuous gullibility of “green” consumers,

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been an overall small warming trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from, at times, milder temperatures since about 1999, but with three significant warm periods associated with the El Nino events in

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Russia Denies Sabotaging of Pipelines, so Who?

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Dave Patterson is a retired US Air Force pilot and the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller. In addition to Liberty Nation, his articles have also appeared in The Federalist. On Monday, September 26, underwater explosions in the Baltic Sea caused significant damage to

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DNA Cracks a Century-Old Mystery about NZ’s Only Extinct Freshwater Fish

Lachie Scarsbrook University of Oxford Kieren Mitchell Nic Rawlence University of Otago Kieren Mitchell’s research revolves around determining the relationships among different species and groups of animals as a framework for studying broader evolutionary processes, such as adaptation, convergence, dispersal, diversification, and extinction. Nic Rawlence has an undergraduate degree

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Washington DC’s Plans for Carbon Neutral

Paul Driessen cfact.org Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and author of Cracking Big Green and Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death. Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser thinks people worldwide have a “human right” to come to the United States, legally or illegally. Our nation’s capital proudly

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Quiet Policy Release of the Day

Quiet Policy Release of the Day

The National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land released yesterday purports to protect the “most-productive” land from urban development. Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says: Today’s changes enhance protection for our highly productive land giving farmers, growers and other food producers certainty into the future, and provide greater economic

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Going Green Could Save the World Trillions

Well, that’s according to a study as reported by none other than the BBC. Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050, an Oxford University study says. The report said it was wrong and pessimistic to claim that

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Using Land for Agriculture is Good

Using Land for Agriculture is Good

Kristoffer Mousten Hansen mises.org Kristoffer Mousten Hansen is a research assistant at the Institute for Economic Policy at Leipzig University. He received his PhD from the University of Angers and is a former Mises Institute research fellow. Earlier this year, Our World in Data celebrated the fact we have

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Sleeping Fish? From Sharks to Salmon, Guppies to Groupers, Here’s How They Grab a Snooze

Michael Heithaus Florida International University Dr. Mike Heithaus is dean of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education (CASE) and Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University (FIU). A marine ecologist specializing in predator-prey interactions and the ecological importance of sharks and other large marine species,

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Some Traditions Are More Protected than Others

Some Traditions Are More Protected than Others

Fox hunting is a British cultural practice at least centuries, probably millennia, old. Hunting with hounds in Britain goes back to pre-Roman times. Fox hunting as we know it – all scarlet coats, horses, hounds and Tally Ho! – is a more recent evolution. It’s a cultural practice almost exclusively associated

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