Dr. John Robson investigates the unsound origins and fundamental inaccuracy, even dishonesty, of the claim that 97% of scientists, or “the world’s scientists”, or something agree that climate change is man-made, urgent and dangerous.
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Councillors chose to hold the plant at arm’s length. They then behaved as though that put the politics of it out of their reach too, which was never true.
The powers that be are just sweeping these issues under the rug and whistling past the landfill graveyards.
Generative AI threatens to upend citizen science records, as images of fake species slowly start to proliferate.
They invented the scheme, waited for National’s homework, forced the boss, softened the worker and skipped the cut they cried about.
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At the time of the 2025 burglary, Yates had just served a sentence of home detention for other burglaries and was still subject to release conditions. Yates was sentenced to two years and nine months’ imprisonment.
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