Serious goal-setting seems like a very good way to torment oneself, creating a new reason out of thin air. My New Year’s resolution is to avoid setting goals. Type A is not my type. But maybe it’s time to turn over a new leaf. I’ve decided I don’t want to be a...
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It’s a well-known pattern in public policy – profligate politicians damaging their economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing and higher taxes – inevitably leading to fiscal crisis, sharp declines in growth and ultimately rapidly falling currency value...
Mass hysteria is the spontaneous manifestation of a particular behaviour by many people. There are numerous historical examples: Middle Age nuns at a convent in France spontaneously began to meow like cats; at another convent, nuns began biting one another. In...
Earth Day Network (EDN) chose “End Plastic Pollution” as their theme for this year’s April 22 Earth Day. It is just the tip of the anti-plastic activism that now consumes environmental extremists. A Google search on “Plastic Pollution Coalition” (a group claiming to...
Part 15 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
The IPCC report AR5 and it's report on extreme weather says there is little evidence that extreme weather events can be attributed to human-caused emissions. Weather extremes in the U.S. were worse in the 1930's and 1950's than in recent decades. So why is the Prairie...
Third Reich Forest Minister Hermann Goering was an avid hiker and ecologist who once sent a man to a concentration camp for cutting up a frog for fish bait. In 1933 he and other Nazi Party leaders enacted anti-vivisection laws to stop what he called “unbearable...
Part 14 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth
Anyone who thought “manmade climate cataclysm” rhetoric couldn’t possibly exceed Obama era levels should read the complaint filed in the “public nuisance” lawsuit that’s being argued before Federal District Court Judge William Alsup in a California courtroom: Oakland...
Part 13 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth. In the distant past high levels of carbon dioxide coincide with colder temperatures and increased glaciation -...
Hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as ‘Fracking,’ is a common technique to extract oil and gas from deep underground rock formations. During hydraulic fracturing, a special fluid is injected into a rock formation with enough pressures to fracture the oil- and...
Part 11 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.