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Wrong, ScienceAlert: Sea Level ‘Acceleration’ Isn’t What the Measured Data Show
Fri Jun 12 9:00 pm

Sea level is rising; it has been for generations. The key question is whether it is accelerating in a way that justifies claims of looming crisis. The longest, most reliable measurements say no. ScienceAlert failed to look at all the science available, and in the process, created a biased and false article.

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Piketty’s Eco-Marxist Utopia: Why Degrowth and Global Redistribution Will Trap the Poor in Poverty
Fri Jun 12 5:00 pm

The world's poor deserve better than another utopia designed for them by the globalist intelligentsia. They deserve cheap energy, open markets, secure property rights, and the freedom to industrialise on terms they choose for themselves. That is what worked in East Asia. It is what will work in South Asia, Africa and Latin America. And it is precisely what the Global Justice Report, for all its mathematical sophistication, conspicuously fails to offer.

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Everyone Wants Affordable Energy. Nobody Wants to Cut the Ribbon.
Fri Jun 12 2:00 pm

Leadership matters in developing energy projects. Following the 2025 inauguration of the President Donald Trump, five pipeline projects, including Constitution, were revived in the Northeast, after years of being stalled by political hostility, according to an S&P Global analysis. Outside the region, 10 projects received federal or state approvals.

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Live at 1 PM ET: Godzilla El Niño is Coming! — The Climate Realism Show #205
Fri Jun 12 12:40 pm

Ocean temps are rising in the tropical Pacific Ocean, a natural and regular phenomenon called El Niño. Climate modelers say this year's could be one of the biggest ever, and some have nicknamed it "Godzilla El Niño!" That's a fun name, but what can we expect in this El Niño cycle? The Climate Realism Show's Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Lois Perry will talk about that.

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Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters A Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot
Fri Jun 12 9:00 am

Department of the Interior Press Secretary Charlotte Taylor told the DCNF in June 2025 that E&E News is a “desperate outlet” that solely reports on “leaks from government agencies and even high school newspapers have a bigger readership.”

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Crackpot Christians Worried About GB News!
Fri Jun 12 5:00 am

The Guardian headline refers to “Christian leaders”. In fact, Operation Noah is nothing of the sort, it is just a small charity (their own description"), and do not reflect the policies and beliefs of the C of E.

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ISS Leak Scare Underscores Why NASA Is Ready to Send the Aging Outpost to a Fiery End
Fri Jun 12 1:00 am

Five astronauts ordered to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours as Russian crew attempted to fix a crack on its portion of the orbital laboratory,

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Two costly Endangered Species Act permitting boondoggles
Thu Jun 11 9:00 pm

The public, landowners, and Congress need to know what Endangered Species Act development permitting actually requires in labor and cost.

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About That Climate Emotions Study
Thu Jun 11 5:00 pm

The 966 Germans were asked how they felt. They told them. The feelings went into the model, the model made numbers, the numbers went into the journal, and everyone got paid, the survey panel included. And that, as far as I can tell, is the rest of the story.

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Global rice production has nearly doubled over 50 years despite climate change
Thu Jun 11 1:00 pm

"... rising atmospheric CO2 was the primary environmental factor contributing to increased rice production by enhancing photosynthesis and improving water-use efficiency ..."

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Dear Bloomberg: Trump Can Be Against Deforestation in the Amazon While Still Thinking Climate Change is Overblown
Thu Jun 11 9:00 am

Silly comparison...

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Proposed New El Niño Index to Measure El Niño strength
Thu Jun 11 5:00 am

Like the old index, but robuster...

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