‘Science’ Finally Retracts An Absolute Mess Of A Paper

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Late last year, a story emerged questioning the validity of a paper that had made a big splash when it was published in Science earlier in 2016. The paper was high profile, in large part because of its subject — the effect of plastic microbeads on fish. The authors claimed their data showed that young fish preferentially eat plastic microbeads instead of their other food options.

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May 15, 2017 at 03:14AM

NYTimes Warms to Climate Change Skepticism

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Never imagining ever having an occasion to reference anything posted in The New York Times as evidence of climate sanity, an April 28 article brings gleeful tears of hope to these jaded eyes. Titled “Climate of Complete Certainty,” the gray lady’s new op-ed writer Bret Stephens observes in his first-ever column entry, “We live in […]

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May 15, 2017 at 02:53AM

Finland Is Worried That It Is Nearly As Warm As 1939!

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From the Guardian, via Yahoo: Finland, the new chair of the Arctic council, has appealed to climate change scientists to fight the threat of the US and Russia tearing up commitments to combat global warming.
The Nordic country takes up the two-year chairmanship of the body, increasingly a forum where arguments about climate change play out, at a ministerial meeting on Thursday in Fairbanks,…

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May 15, 2017 at 02:39AM

Wind Turbines not Green or Clean & Provide Zero Global Energy

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The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that ‘the proliferation of wind energy into the global power market continues at a furious pace, after it was revealed that more than 54 gigawatts of clean renewable wind power was installed across the global market last year’.

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May 15, 2017 at 02:34AM