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The Government Wants More Coal To Get Energy Costs Down – Is That Bad For The Air?

President Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order restarting coal leasing on federal lands while classifying coal as a critical mineral. Social media critics, and academics being quoted in media, are declaring the end of the world due to American pollution. Are they correct?read...

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Mercury Emissions Are In Decline Yet Doomsday Prophets Claim They Are Up

If you read environmental groups, we are closer to our doom than ever. Bees are nearly extinct, cell phones are causing cancer, and hydroelectric power is devastating the land.None of those are true yet they all have claims found in journals and in media. So it has been with mercury emissions, where computer models so poorly designed they'd get you fired in the private sector if you tried to...

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What Will It Take For Real Farming In Space?

If humans in space are happening any time soon, it will be despite government involvement rather than because of it. NASA couldn't even build a telescope without going 25 years and 1,000 percent over budget. By the time all cultural parties pick away at a manned space program, it will be so expensive and time-costly it won't be worthwhile, and the private sector will throw all that baggage out...

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Carbon Offsets Won’t Work Until There Is Science In How Trees Are Planted

Former Vice-President Al Gore has a giant mansion but buys carbon offsets to mitigate the damage. Do they work?It depends, and that means it is unlikely. Lots of corporations dove into the carbon offset market, Mr. Gore made hundreds of millions of dollars investing in them, but there is no standard beyond 'we will plant this many trees.' The story is certainly compelling. There is no guilt about...

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New York Has A Mild Winter Two Weeks In – Global Climate Change Implicated

We're only two weeks into winter and a New York university is already declaring above-average temperatures in 2023 a result of global climate change. read more

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Without Climate Lockdowns, US Property Values May Plummet?

Prior to the Olympics in Beijing, China solved a pollution problem they previously claimed they never had by banning all cars except those for communist party elites. It did little for CO2, Beijing had a PM10 (smog) problem, but it showed drastic interventions could help the air.read...

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