Must Fossil Fuel Extraction Be Stopped to Limit Global Warming?

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“Fossil Fuel Extraction Must Be Stopped to Limit Global Warming.” That’s the headline of an article at Earth.com, an environmental activist website. It purports to convey the message of a study published May 17, 2022, in Environmental Research Letters, “Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5°C,” though the study makes no such claim. According to […]

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Increased Plant Productivity: The First Key Benefit of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment

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This article is the second in a series. You can read the first post here. “Based on the numerous experiments listed there, I can tell you that, typically, a 300-ppm increase in the air’s CO2 content … will raise the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third, which stimulation is generally manifested by an increase in

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Death of a Nightmare: The Last Gasps of Poseur Politics

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According to psychiatrist Seth D. Norrholm, dictators see themselves “as ‘very special’ people, deserving of admiration, and, consequently, [they] have difficulty empathizing with the feelings and needs of others; they also tend to behave with a vindictiveness often observed in narcissistic personality disorder.”  In other words, they are nuts. And dangerous. And in power.  Norrholm,

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The Many Benefits of Rising Atmospheric CO2 — An Introduction

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This article is the first post in a series. You can read the second article here. Atmospheric carbon dioxide: you can’t see, hear, smell or taste it. But it’s there—all around us—and it’s crucial for life. Composed of one carbon and two oxygen atoms, this simple molecule serves as the primary raw material out of

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The Nature of Things: Trees Shed Leaves, Coral Bleaches

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Contrary to the incessant bleating of office-based Great Barrier Reef “experts” (who visit the Reef a couple of weeks in a year), the reported incidents of coral bleaching are nothing new, unusual or threatening. They are common natural events no more threatening than trees shedding their leaves with the changing seasons, or occasionally in response

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The climate scaremongers: An open letter to the Daily Telegraph

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The Daily Telegraph regularly publishes articles by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, its International Business Editor, which eulogise renewable energy and claim that fossil fuels will soon be a thing of the past. But they never seem to tell the other side of the story. Here is that other side. *** Fossil Fuels v Renewable Energy? Let me start by

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African Research on Solar Cycles: Science vs. Net Zero

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“Climate change is no hoax, because the climate always changes. Modest global warming might be beneficial for the globe. But not all climate change is beneficial. Cooling would be disastrous.” “The American Geophysical Union … displays a diminishing interest in science, that is, in the disinterested pursuit of knowledge. Instead, it revels in an escalating

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