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Air pollution not correlated with asthma hospitalizations, reports new JunkScience.com study | Fracker paid Sierra Club $26 million to attack coal (Feb. 3) | Clean Energy Hostages (Feb. 1) | DDT T-shirts are back! (Jan. 31) | Climategate: Victory for FOIA (Jan. 31) | Will Manchin defend coal? (Jan. 26) Emanuel fails to disclose conflict of interest in latest paper (Jan. 24) | Shocker: Chinese air pollution debunks U.S. EPA junk science (Jan. 5)

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Op-Ed: Let them eat pizza

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Healthier school lunch rules fail as kids stage a vegetable rebellion Continue reading →

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New Survey: Majority Of Americans Oppose Soda Tax

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No matter what way you divide America – rich, poor, old, young, thin, fat, black, white, Hispanic or other – there is no majority support for a new 20 percent tax on soda Continue reading →

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Classic sooty-moth tale bolstered by new results

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Backyard experiment strengthens scenario for evolutionary changes due to pollution Continue reading →

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Vivian Krause: $65-million for ducks (?) and more

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Green groups got $95-million from the outside Continue reading →

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The Rural Council, Agenda 21: The Collectivist Impulse to Plan Other People’s Lives

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The simple message is that bureaucrats shouldn’t try to control our lives, regardless of whether those pencil-pushers reside in Washington or the United Nations. Continue reading →

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Pearce: Rio+20 shows little sign of living up to original Earth summit

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As Brazil prepares for the Rio+20 conference, there is little on the agenda to suggest any substantive action will be taken Continue reading →

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Agenda 21 Is Repackaged Socialism, Unsustainable Development

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This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nation’s Brundtland Report, which defined Sustainable Development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” But aristocratic socialists have corrupted the sustainable development movement into a vehicle to achieve vast administrative power for themselves. Nations that adopt Sustainable Development are doomed to fail at meeting the needs of the present generation and through debt accumulation from deficit spending will consign future generations to a life as debt slaves. Continue reading →

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Solar Panels Sometimes Pit Global Warming Against Local Ecosystems

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Solar energy has been enjoying its day in the sun with massive federal subsidies, but the energy taken from sunlight also has a dark side Continue reading →

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Posted in Biodiversity, Clean energy, Development, Green Hypocrisy

Ocean microbe communities changing, but long-term environmental impact is unclear

Posted on February 9, 2012 by | 1 Comment

As oceans warm due to climate change, water layers will mix less and affect the microbes and plankton that pump carbon out of the atmosphere – but researchers say it’s still unclear whether these processes will further increase global warming or decrease it. Continue reading →

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Trying to make warming responsible for 400+ cold deaths

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“Some climatologists expect such winters to become increasingly common as Northern Hemisphere warming leads to more severe northern continental winters.” Continue reading →

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2C warming goal now ‘optimistic’ – French scientists

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Optimistic my big ears! We have absolutely no hope at all of raising the planet’s temperature by 2 °C, no matter how hard we try. And despite the obvious life-benefits of a warmer world it is doubtful the returns would justify the effort involved in the attempt. Continue reading →

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Warning on ‘dead’ EU carbon market ‘meddling’

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Europe’s largest employers’ group has warned against meddling in the carbon market to prop up sagging prices, just a day after one of the continent’s top energy executives declared the market “dead” and demanded urgent intervention to save it. Continue reading →

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But is the Greens’ high moral air carbon neutral?

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I HATE to break the news this way, but Australia is not going to meet its target to reduce greenhouse emissions by 5 per cent of 2000 levels by 2020. Continue reading →

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Richard Lindzen: The Perversion Of Science

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Foreword to Andrew Montford’s Nullius in Verba: The Royal Society and Climate Change Continue reading →

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Royal Society Urged To Restore Culture of Open-Mindedness on Climate Science & Policy Debates

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The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is calling on the Royal Society to restore a culture of open-mindedness and balanced assessment of climate science and climate policy. Continue reading →

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