Fossil fuels and fertilizers: a pairing that feeds the world

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Amid Earth Day’s impassioned calls to save the planet for future generations, a disquieting irony emerges: Efforts to eradicate fossil fuels – a linchpin of modern agro-industrial systems – risk severing the very supply chains that make global food security possible.  From famine to abundance: green revolution Contemporary food production sustains a global populace of approximately […]

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Study Destroys Basis of EPA Climate Regulations—No Starvation Driven by Climate Change

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For two decades, the public has been bombarded with dire warnings of an impending climate-induced agricultural apocalypse. The claim is that a climate warmed excessively by the carbon dioxide emissions of human activity will ravage the food supply and plunge humanity into famine and chaos. For many reasons, none of this ever made sense. Now,

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Paper Exposes Pseudoscience Behind Methane War on Farmers

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Methane emissions have become a focal point of the climate debate, triggering absurd agricultural regulations negatively affecting farming communities worldwide. Targets for abuse are ruminant animals, including cattle and sheep, that produce methane (CH4) through enteric fermentation – a natural digestive process that converts grass into protein-rich meat and milk for human consumption. Even farmers

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Spencer vs. Schmidt: My Response to RealClimate.org Criticisms

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EN: Dr. Roy Spencer serves thoughtfully on the Cornwall Alliance Board. What follows is a response to Gavin Schmidt’s blog post at RealClimate.org entitled Spencer’s Shenanigans in which he takes issue with my claims in Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models. As I read through his criticism, he seems to be trying too hard to refute my claims

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Why Not to Worry about Farming’s Contribution to Global Warming

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For decades the primary way environmentalists concerned about manmade global warming have advocated to slow it has been to reduce human emissions of the “greenhouse gas” carbon dioxide (mainly from burning coal, oil, and natural gas for energy). Lately they have focused increasingly on contributions from two other “greenhouse gases,” primarily from agriculture—methane (CH4) from

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Here’s a Real Superhero for Your Kids to Imitate!

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Billions of people owe him thanks. Hardly any have heard of him. He worked patiently, tirelessly, in dirt and grime, unknown to almost everyone. But he’s one of the most important people who’ve ever lived. Of models I hope my grandkids will follow, he’s among the top. Not that they’d

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Sri Lanka: Canary in the Environmentalist Coal Mine

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Last year the Cornwall Alliance reported on our blog that Sri Lanka was headed for serious trouble. Now, sadly, our prediction is coming true. The Associated Press (AP) calls Sri Lanka “a country hurtling towards bankruptcy, with hardly any money to import gasoline, milk, cooking gas and toilet paper.” In late June its prime minister

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