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600 Plant Species Extinct (0.15%) NOT 'Bad News For All Species' - Scary And Clickbait BBC News - Annotated

600 Plant Species Extinct (0.15%) NOT 'Bad News For All Species' - Scary And Clickbait BBC News - Annotated

This article is scaring people, with the usual “all going to be extinct soon ” hype that we have had so many stories about this year. It is running in many news sources. I am not singling out the BBC…
Nomads Helped Spread Agriculture Across Eurasia

Nomads Helped Spread Agriculture Across Eurasia

When we think of agriculture, we don't think of nomadic hunter-gatherers who simply followed nature rather than harnessing it.  But they engaged in trade also. Millet, originally…
Climate Change Will NOT End Human Civilization By 2050, 'Overblown Rhetoric And Unsupportable Doomist Framing' Says Michael Mann

Climate Change Will NOT End Human Civilization By 2050, 'Overblown Rhetoric And Unsupportable Doomist Framing' Says Michael Mann

This is scaring so many people, but is full of mistakes and has no scientific credibility. It's written by a couple of businessmen, with a foreword by a retired admiral, and no scientific peer…
Palm Oil Is Causing Deforestation And Other Myths Environmentalists Want To Dispel

Palm Oil Is Causing Deforestation And Other Myths Environmentalists Want To Dispel

Palm oil is being blamed for a lot but two academic conservationists note that those who ask to boycott all palm oil due to its contribution to deforestation should also consider boycotting coffee,…
This Is How You Save A Million Threatened Species - And Make Biodiversity Great Again - The Solutions In The UN IPBES Report

This Is How You Save A Million Threatened Species - And Make Biodiversity Great Again - The Solutions In The UN IPBES Report

You have probably seen the headlines “One million species threatened with extinction and humans to blame” and such like. But did you know, the UN study that lead to those headlines analysed the…
Positive Side Of Climate Change Facts - After Two Years Of Climate Change Action,  Heading For 3°C With 1.5°C Well Within Reach

Positive Side Of Climate Change Facts - After Two Years Of Climate Change Action, Heading For 3°C With 1.5°C Well Within Reach

Almost nobody seems to report the positive side of our recent climate change action. It’s remarkable what we’ve done in two years, which gives us much hope that we can indeed rise to the challenge. I…
Farmstand: A Celebrity-Backed Bong The Size Of A Phone Booth That Grows Superfoods For Rich Elites

Farmstand: A Celebrity-Backed Bong The Size Of A Phone Booth That Grows Superfoods For Rich Elites

Zooey Deschanel, whose picture could be in the dictionary under "adorkable" thanks to starring roles in "Elf" and "New Girl", isn't well regarded in science, and hasn't been since for as long as she'…
Absurd Blog Post At Arctic News Predicts 10 °C Rise In Global Temperatures By 2026 - QUADRATIC To EXTRAPOLATE!

Absurd Blog Post At Arctic News Predicts 10 °C Rise In Global Temperatures By 2026 - QUADRATIC To EXTRAPOLATE!

Am debunking this page because it makes a scary prediction of a 10 °C rise by 2026. It is very very silly. By far the silliest post I’ve seen on climate change, and that’s saying something, I’ve seen…
Reducing Food Waste Reduces Lots Of Environmental Concerns

Reducing Food Waste Reduces Lots Of Environmental Concerns

There are various groups that claim to care about the environment and put on expensive seminars with corporate sponsors (i.e. FoodTank) that just happen to align with the ideological goals of their…
Earth Is Getting Greener, But Greens Have Little To Do With It

Earth Is Getting Greener, But Greens Have Little To Do With It

If you want to know how great American air quality is, making EPA efforts to regulate more businesses into the ground all the more baffling, there are maps for that. If you want to know how great…

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