New UN Report on Looming Mass Extinctions Exposed in US House Testimony

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A new UN report warns that “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.” That allegation was contained within the 1,800-page Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) “Summary for Policy Makers,” released on May 6. If “decades” means 30 to 40 years, then the IPBES estimates an extinction rate of about 25,000 […]

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The Environmental Marvel that Even Avengers Could Not Have Dreamt of

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                                            Why aren’t you seeing or hearing good news about the environment on your news apps and primetime news? If you think it’s because there isn’t any, think again. There’s lots. But environmentalists and the mainstream media (MSM) constantly focus on whatever bad news they can find—even if they have to exaggerate or manufacture it.

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The Global Nuclear Push: Pathway to a Bright and Secure Energy Future

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I believe the future of energy is nuclear. Many others do, too. Despite the unfounded fears surrounding their safety, almost all major economies in the world have embraced nuclear technology with both arms. Here is a look at the current nuclear energy scenario and recent developments that offer a hope of a bright and secure

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Mother’s Day and Abortion: Hope for the Living and the Lost

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I was born through a mother. So were you. But even as I was wishing a happy Mother’s Day to folks yesterday, a primetime news headline on CNN’s international website caught my eyes: “There was no hope.” CNN’s Attack on Mother’s Day The article talked of the difficulty in getting an abortion in Italy. CNN followed that with an article reporting on

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Air Pollution: Why There’s Hope for a Brighter Future

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For many people today, humanity’s biggest moral failure is that we are destroying our environment. Nations that took part in the Industrial Revolution (those that conquered poverty long before others) get the lion’s share of the blame. High on the list of their crimes is air pollution. Soot- and smog-filled skies are an affront to

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Whose Business Is It Anyway? When I Got Climate-Bullied on Twitter

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The hate level on Twitter can far exceed any other on social media. But many sane, civilized, intelligent people on Twitter continue to make our world a better place. They share ideas and communicate life-altering, life-saving information to the larger public. Twitter also provides a platform to engage with peers. As a climate researcher, I

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Climate Madness Might Cost Elections: Lessons from the Canadian Carbon Tax Fiasco

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Politicians who favor policies to fight global warming that will impose big costs on consumers might take a lesson from what’s happening in Canada. The Trudeau government imposed a new carbon tax on its citizens effective April 1, 2019. (Yes, indeed, April Fool’s Day!) But it faces legal challenges in the provinces of Ontario, Saskatchewan,

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Can Government Agencies Protect Us from Lying Scientists and Sycophantic Media?

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Newspapers, politicians and pressure groups have been moving smoothly for decades from one forecast apocalypse to another (nuclear power, acid rain, the ozone layer, mad cow disease, nanotechnology, genetically modified crops, the millennium bug…) without waiting to be proved right or wrong. So wrote Matt Ridley at the start of “Lying with science: a guide

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Beyond Partisan Ideology and Big-Oil Interests: Why Climate Skepticism Thrives

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It is easy to associate climate skepticism with the Republican Party and climate alarmism with the Democratic Party. It’s also easy to brand skeptics as beneficiaries of big oil and proponents of unfettered capitalism and alarmists as in the pocket of big wind and solar and boosters of socialist central planning. But attitudes about climate

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