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

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Peterson Academy will also offer a course from Michael Shermer, the editor-in-chief of Skeptic Magazine, on “critical thinking and scientific reasoning.” A definitive body of research has documented the negative effects of rising CO2 on crops.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

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”. This is the the time of the year when the minimum sea ice extent is reached, which usually happens mid-September. Lot’s of Methane.

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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. Shell had other plans.