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Showtime, Syria, and the Faces of Climate Change: ‘So if the proximate cause of Syria’s civil war cannot be pinned on drought or climate change, why then is the Showtime documentary spending 20 minutes on a weak case study?’

Showtime, Syria, and the Faces of Climate Change http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Collide-a-scape/~3/_foTV2Uex6o/ Twenty years ago, a hugely influential article by Robert Kaplan titled “The Coming Anarchy,” was published in The Atlantic magazine. Kaplan argued that the environment would be the “national security issue of the early twenty-first century.” He predicted that resource scarcity and ecological degradation would be destabilizing […]

Review paper finds the Medieval Warm Period was global and its peak warmth likely significantly greater than the present

Review paper finds the Medieval Warm Period was global and its peak warmth likely significantly greater than the present http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/04/review-paper-finds-medieval-warm-period.html A new paper from SPPI and CO2 Science reviews the scientific literature on the Medieval Warm Period in Upper North America, and concludes, “these published results now join the many other similar results, from all […]

Climate Brainwashing Of Children: A Rough Guide To Spotting It Happening

Climate Brainwashing Of Children: A Rough Guide To Spotting It Happening http://www.thegwpf.org/climate-brainwashing-of-children-a-rough-guide-to-spotting-it-happening/ Way back in 1992, Thomas Sowell wrote about brainwashing going on in the American education system, and he defined what he meant by that emotive term.  As I shall show below, his insights are relevant today when examining materials aimed at children about […]

Matt Ridley: The Richer We Get, The Greener We’ll Become

Matt Ridley: The Richer We Get, The Greener We’ll Become http://www.thegwpf.org/matt-ridley-the-richer-we-get-the-greener-well-become/ The world’s climate change experts are now saying that strong growth doesn’t hurt the environment, it protects it In the past 50 years, world per capita income roughly trebled in real terms, corrected for inflation. If it continues at this rate (and globally the […]

Julian Simon: Happy Earth Day (1995): ‘It is very frustrating that after 25 years of the anti-pessimists being proven entirely right, and the doomsayers being proven entirely wrong, their credibility and influence waxes ever greater’

Julian Simon: Happy Earth Day (1995) http://www.thegwpf.org/julian-simon-happy-earth-day-1995/ “[It] is very frustrating that after 25 years of the anti-pessimists being proven entirely right, and the doomsayers being proven entirely wrong, their credibility and influence waxes ever greater. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there is every scientific reason to be joyful about the trends […]