To Get Wind Power You Need Oil

Written by Vaclav Smil

Wind turbines are the most visible symbols of the quest for renewable electricity generation. And yet, although they exploit the wind, which is as free and as green as energy can be, the machines themselves are pure embodiments of fossil fuels.

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Behavioral Science: Have you been Nudged?

Written by Lucy Hooker

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Image caption: Richard Thaler has won a Nobel prize for his research into ‘nudge’ theory

Think the Nobel prize for economics has nothing to do with you? In some years that may well be true. But this year’s award has gone to Richard Thaler who, in his book Nudge, was one of the first to outline how tiny prompts can alter our behaviour.

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Potsdam Institute’s Stefan Rahmstorf Uses Tricks To Warn Against ‘Trickster Skeptics’

Written by Pierre L. Gosselin

It’s safe to say that the only people who still believe the ultra-alarmist scenarios of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research are the leftist media and green activists. Even the government funders of this institute know they aren’t really true. After all Germany hasn’t cut CO2 emissions in close to 10 years.

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Defining ‘White Privilege’

Written by Richard F. Cronin

Admittedly, “white privilege” is a very sensitive social and political topic. I would offer that such white privilege is discernible going back to the great Ice Ages.

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New Paper: Temperature Increase From Doubling CO2 Is ‘Insignificant Compared to Natural Variability’

Written by Pierre L. Gosselin

Temperature measurement stations have been installed at various locations across the globe. The number of temperature monitoring stations is decreasing and many areas across the globe do not have any temperature monitoring stations. Consequently, average surface temperature is an unreliable metric for assessing global temperature trends.

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UN’s ‘Climate Change’ is Daylight Robbery

Written by Dr Tim Ball

Daylight Robbery,

“is a figurative phrase that associates an instance of unfair trading with actual robbery. Not just any old robbery, but one so unashamed and obvious that it is committed in broad daylight.”

It fits the actions and procedures of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The first robbery was with the definition of climate change. Most believe they examine all causes of climate change, but they use Article 1 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

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