Woman Killed By Bear Because Of Climate Change!
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From the ever more hysterical Telegraph: A woman has been killed in an apparent bear attack while picking wild bamboo shoots in the mountains of northern Japan. The body of Masako Oishi, 61, a nursing assistant, was reportedly found with gashes to the back of her head in a mountainous forest in Akita prefecture, which […]
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May 30, 2017 at 02:15AM
Clexit is Winning: East European states fight back against Paris Accord
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H/T to GWPF for the heads-up on this story from Climate Change News by Arthur Neslen in Brussels
East European EU states are mounting a behind-the-scenes revolt against the Paris Agreement, blocking key measures needed to deliver the pledge that they signed up to 18 months ago.
Under the climate accord, Europe promised to shave 40% off its emissions by 2030, mostly by revising existing climate laws on renewables, energy efficiency and its flagship Emissions Trading System (ETS).
But documents seen by Climate Home show that Visegrad countries are trying to gut, block or water down all of these efforts, in a rearguard manoeuvre that mirrors president Donald Trump’s rollback of climate policy in Washington.
Energy efficiency is supposed to make up around half of Europe’s emissions reductions by 2030, but a Czech proposal could cut energy saving obligations from a headline 1.5% a year figure to just 0.35% in practice.
Below the radar, Poland has also launched a manoeuvre that may block the EU’s winter package in its entirety – particularly a planned limit on power plant emissions – if it is signed up to by a third of EU parliaments, or 10-13 states.
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May 30, 2017 at 02:03AM
Bulgaria’s New Environment Minister Casts Doubt On Global Warming
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Dimov, a 53-year-old who has a master’s degree in mathematics and a doctorate in physics and who was deputy environment minister in the 1997/2001 Ivan Kostov government, was named to the third Boiko Borissov government from the quota of the nationalist United Patriots.
Until his cabinet appointment, Dimov was head of the Institute of Right Policy and made regular appearances in television interviews.
In November 2016, on Donald Trump becoming US president, Dimov likened Trump to Ronald Reagan: “He and Thatcher led a war against evil. Now he (Trump) and Theresa May have a chance to do the same”.
In the same TV appearance, Dimov said that it was untrue that the whole world received Trump becoming president with fear and horror, saying that it was only socialists who were afraid.
Speaking to-camera during the 7.33 minute video, Dimov expounds the thesis that human impact on climate change is a “manipulation” related to economic interests and a lot of money.
“Supporters of sustainable development are frightening us with global warming. The UN has no panel on global warming, but on climate change, but the climate is constantly changing. That may be the first indication that this is a matter more of manipulation than for serious concern,” Dimov says in the video.
“It is good to pose two questions. Is global warming really happening? If that is so, does human activity lead to global warming or do other factors cause it?”
He also rejects the possibility of the sea level being raised because of global warming.
“That is not true. There is a law of nature, discovered by Archimedes more than 2000 years ago, that a body immersed in water, displaces the volume of water of the volume of the body itself. The ice of the North Pole already has sunk into the world ocean and increased its level with that volume, of the ice itself.”
Dimov says that the fear of the rising of the level of the world’s oceans is absolutely unfounded.
“Rather we may talk about a cycle, rather than an increase in temperatures.”
He also argues that if the EU’s 40 per cent emission reduction target is met, the effect would be minimal, but in Europe alone, more than 500 billion euro would be spent.
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May 30, 2017 at 01:54AM
Facebook Censorship; Congress Should Investigate Anti-Conservative Bias
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Yet another one of my posts exposing the Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Disruption/Coming Ice Age Hoax has been censored on Facebook. Personally, I wear their censorship like a badge of honor, but as a foundational “media” organization, their blatant, biased and Un-Democratic policies should not be tolerated in a free society. I encourage all readers to […]
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May 30, 2017 at 01:45AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 