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Clexit: Withdrawing America from the UN Climate Change Treaties
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Clexit: Withdrawing America from the UN Climate Change Treaties

The United States is entangled in expensive, and ultimately, useless and inefficient United Nations climate change treaties, wrote author Donn Dears. Dears, a former General Electric (GE) executive, wrote a book which is being promoted by the Heartland Institute entitled, “Clexit: For a Brighter Future; The Case for Withdrawing from United Nations’ Climate Treaties.” In […]

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Professor’s Op-Ed says Trump’s Anti-Climate Change Agenda should Disqualify Him from Using Science
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Professor’s Op-Ed says Trump’s Anti-Climate Change Agenda should Disqualify Him from Using Science

From The College Fix: In a recent piece in The Huffington Post, California State University, Sacramento’s Joseph Palermo argues that because Donald Trump “rejects the science of climate change,” he shouldn’t be permitted to make use of science in other realms. “I’ve always believed that people who dismiss science in one area shouldn’t be able to benefit […]

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Study Calls into Question Key Climate Change Metric

From Mike Bastasch at the Daily Caller: Meteorologist Anthony Watts and amateur scientist Willis Eschenbach released new research suggesting “global climate sensitivity to increased carbon dioxide, and the potential feedback mechanism of increased water vapor in Earth’s atmosphere, is actually far less than postulated by the IPCC.” Watts and Eschenbach used satellite data to quantify […]

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Drop the Class if You’re a Climate Change Denier, says Professor

Quelling dissent and encouraging students to drop out due to difference in opinion on climate change/global warming…that is a bold move: Three professors co-teaching an online course called “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told their students via email that man-made climate change is not open for debate, […]

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Johns Hopkins Expert Advocates for Limiting Childbirths to Save the World from Climate Change

From the College Fix: In a Thursday story at NPR.org, Travis Rieder of Johns Hopkins’ Berman Institute of Bioethics says “[m]aybe we should protect our kids by not having them” in this precarious era of climate change. The “tweedy jacket and tennis shoe-wearing” Rieder uses the year 2036 as a potential “tipping point” for “cataclysmic” […]

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Climate Change Research Ignores Common Sense

Academics are still trying to point out the dangers of global warming, even while the rest of us are still wearing winter clothes well into the month of May. “Although the world’s nations, including the United States, should intensify their efforts to reduce carbon emissions, we cannot wait patiently for action on carbon emissions while […]

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