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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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Is It Really All over for Dugongs?

Are dugongs really “functionally extinct” in China? That was the big environmental news, this week. But, as I always warn: When an article claims, “science says…” or “new study shows…”, assume that it doesn’t until proven otherwise. That means you should always try and go to the original source,

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EV Plate Fail

EV Plate Fail

Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Warning Satire An unnamed Auckland man whose wife bought a set of personalized plates for his birthday to fit to his new Tesla is facing derision from his mates as well as the wider community. “I chose the Tesla as it enabled me to show

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What a Great Way to Die!

What a Great Way to Die!

Daniel Falk University College Cork Since I was a child I wanted to become a dinosaur scientist – a palaeontologist. In 2014 I did it! I currently don’t deal with dinosaurs, but with Eocene individuals and their skeletal taphonomy and soft-tissue preservation (“Geiseltal collection”, Germany). However, I still have a

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YACA Barrier Reef

YACA Barrier Reef

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Flood Plains Flood – Who Knew?

Flood Plains Flood – Who Knew?

How deep should the taxpayer go to bail people out of the consequences of their own foolish decisions? All the way, it seems. The Bible warns against foolish people who build their houses on foundations of sand. Then there are the people who build their houses on floodplains – and are

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