They’re back: Dakota pipeline protesters set up camp to back Iowa farmers

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The last thing Iowa County farmers expected to crop up amid their well-groomed corn and soybean fields was a permanent pipeline protest camp, given that the county has no pipeline. But after the collapse of the Dakota Access protest in February, Christine Nobiss of the Indigenous Iowa blog returned to the Hawkeye State and founded […]

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May 19, 2017 at 01:22AM

Macron Taps Former TV Show Host As Environment Minister

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French President Emmanuel Macron brought on Nicolas Hulot, an environmentalist who hosted a TV nature show, as his environment minister. Hulot’s presence in Macron’s cabinet boosts the new president’s green credentials, but it’s sent stocks in EDF — France’s state-owned utility — spiraling downward. Hulot is an anti-nuclear power activist and will carry out Macron’s […]

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May 19, 2017 at 01:22AM

Scientists Ascribe Climate Changes To Solar Forcing – No CO2 Attribution

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In recent months, there have been dozens of papers published in the scientific literature ascribing variations in temperature and precipitation (climate) to corresponding variations in solar forcing. Another new paper, Zhang et al., 2017, has just been published online.  The nine scientists contributing to the research place special emphasis on the relationship between solar activity […]

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May 19, 2017 at 01:22AM

Oh noes! Antarctica ‘greening’ due to climate change

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From the “greening of the planet must be a bad thing” department and the UNIVERSITY OF EXETER comes to this breathless missive. Note: one species of moss is not equal to the implied “all plant life” in their sub-headline. Additionally, sampling only three sites [on the Antarctic Peninsula] isn’t necessarily a representative sample of Antarctica. PUBLIC […]

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May 19, 2017 at 12:22AM