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When the Climate Crusade Hijacks the Environment Movement

When the Climate Crusade Hijacks the Environment Movement

Tom Harris cfact.org Tom Harris is executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition Modern environmentalism has been taken over by an extremist cult that threatens to destroy the movement. This cult preys especially on young and impressionable people who lack the life experience to recognise when their good

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Prophecies of Doom Come at a Cost

Prophecies of Doom Come at a Cost

Visiting Wonderland 1967 A “time of famines” is predicted, and by 1975 the world will not have enough food to feed its growing population. 1969 By the year 1989 everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue smoke due to population growth and contamination of the planet. 1970 We are

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How Will You Survive Without Fossil Fuels?

How Will You Survive Without Fossil Fuels?

Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer, and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. The economic and technological advances over the

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How AI Impacts the Future of Agriculture

Robert Sparrow Mark Howard lens.monash.edu Robert Sparrow is a Professor of Philosophy, Monash Data Futures Institute Mark Howard is a Research Fellow, Philosophy, Monash Data Futures Institute, ARC Centre of Excellence in Electromaterial Science “The world is not data,” states a new Monash-led paper on the future of

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Another Green Dream Goes Tits-up

Another Green Dream Goes Tits-up

Well, stap me vitals and colour me shocked! Virtue-signalling, heavy-handed watermelon brain-farts come with blowback even worse than the problem they’re supposed to fix. No! I mean, it’s not like it’s happened before, again and again. Like the Scottish island that eradicated rats that were damaging its

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Earth Day Should Celebrate Capitalism

In an episode of their series Bullshit, magician-sceptics Penn and Teller make a confession of sorts: they show a photo of themselves at the first Earth Day in 1970. Back then, they say, they genuinely believed there was an environmental crisis that needed to be addressed. But now? As Penn

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Are Electric Cars Really That Green?

Are Electric Cars Really That Green?

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), who was working at The Royal Observatory at Greenwich when

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Are Gorillas More Important than Humans?

Mathew Otieno mercatornet.com Mathew Otieno writes from Kisumu, Kenya. The Batwa are a group of pygmy people who have lived in central Africa for millennia. Their homeland spreads across what is now Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shorter in stature than other Africans, they

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

In 2015 Justin Trudeau announced a Canadian cabinet that was a 50/50 split between men and women. When questioned on why this was done – he delivered the patronising quip, “Because it’s 2015.” Not choosing the best people for the job is an appalling disservice to his country – in

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Forests Are Back in a Big Way

The proclivity of environmentalists for making ludicrously wrong alarmist ‘predictions’ is well documented. In fact, it’s even been the subject of peer-reviewed scientific literature. Not that that ever stops them from going right ahead and trying to scare up the next environmental boogey-man. The eternally wrong Paul Ehrlich is

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Harnessing Hot Air

Harnessing Hot Air

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Focus on EVs… but it’s a risk

Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at 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 of

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Coca-Cola is Now All Woka-Cola

Jeffrey Clark newsbusters.org Jeffrey Clark currently serves as a staff writer and researcher for the Media Research Center’s Business Division. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 2019 with a dual degree in History and English Bill Nye the Science Guy went from pushing climate change to

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Going Organic — What Could Go Wrong?

Going Organic — What Could Go Wrong?

Whenever well-off hippy types try to extol the virtues of “organic” farming, it’s worth pointing out that organic farming was the default for nearly all of the past 12,000 years. For all that time, 99.9% of the comparatively tiny human population lived on a monotonous diet of

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The Fly in the Green Policy Ointment

The Fly in the Green Policy Ointment

Europe’s green policies are actually funding the Ukraine war. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more

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