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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

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Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” A definitive body of research has documented the negative effects of rising CO2 on crops.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

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Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. There was no suggestion of a link with Shell.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

In this blog I aim to figure out how much longer will we still have Arctic sea ice. Sea Ice extent is going down. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Why ice age and multi-year ice is important Every year, Arctic sea ice has its “birthday”. Sea level rising (not because of melting).