Does Climate Change Threaten Your Morning Joe? A Guide for Caffeine Aficionados

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There are two types of coffee drinkers: casual and extremely particular.  Regardless which type you are, you might want to know how climate change impacts coffee production. The media tell us coffee plants are dying because of climate change. Time magazine, for example published an article titled, “Your Morning Cup of Coffee Is in Danger. Can the Industry Adapt […]

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New Climate Report Got You Shakin’ in Your Boots?

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Every year like clockwork, starting in late July and running through to November, mainstream media around the world start hyping the message: your sinful use of fossil fuels to heat or cool your home, cook your food, power your car or truck, make and market and use your food, clothing, shelter, communications, transportation, health care,

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Swiss Scientist: Play My Way or I’ll Take My Ball and Go Home!

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That’s the gist of what Swiss climate scientist Sonia Seneviratne told CBC News about why she may refuse to participate in any future assessment reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It’s not that the reports don’t let her say what she wants to say. She’s been a lead author about extreme

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Insurance Industry Plays on Climate Fears

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A Bloomberg News story today titled “Why Snow, Hail, and Wildfire Are Expensive for Insurance Industry” chalks up massive insurance losses this year to climate change. “Climate change is exacerbating extreme and freak weather events so rapidly that even the insurance industry is struggling to keep up,” the story says. “Late last week,” it continues, “reinsurance

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Northern California Fires? Blame Arson and Forest Mismanagement, Not Climate Change

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The “Dixie fire” in northern California has consumed some 500,000 acres and over 400 structures, including most of the town of Greenville. More than 5,800 personnel are fighting the fire. Several other large fires are blazing in the region. Environmentalists, climate alarmists, and mainstream media predictably blamed climate change for them. But it’s likely they’re

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Comments On Federal Scientific Integrity

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 Guest column by Kenneth Haapala, President, The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) “It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is quite another to do so when the environmental problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by careful observations. This is

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“Net Zero by 2050”: Roadmap to Conflict and Poverty

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The Biden Administration wants America to make emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases amount to “net zero”—that is, for emissions and removal of GHGs to be equal—by 2050. The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA, established in 1974 under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development following the 1973 oil crisis to ensure that

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BC Heat Wave Caused by Natural Climate Variability, Not Global Warming: Extreme Weather Expert

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Guest author Isaac Teo As the intense heat wave in the western provinces eases its grip, a former Environment Canada research scientist says that this weather event, while unusual, was caused by natural climate variability and is comparable to heat waves that occurred in the 1920s and 30s. “This heat wave was exceptional, but it

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The Many Hopeless European Climate Change Laws

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Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT University, one of the world’s leading experts on atmospheric physics, had these extraordinary words: ‘Carbon control is a bureaucratic dream. If you control carbon, you control life’. The European Commission (EC), in its desire to control CO2 emissions, is going to – although it is not intended to – control the daily lives of European

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