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RESPONSE OF PLANT SPECIES TO CO2 LEVELS, BY DENNIS T. AVERY

The earth has stopped warming, but the greenhouse gasses continue to accumulate at higher levels in the atmosphere. In fact, it seems certain that the planet will have rising levels of atmospheric CO2  for the foreseeable future. No country has … Continue reading

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WILL SEAWEED BE THE BIOFUEL SOLUTION? BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Researchers may have broken the biofuel barrier. A new biotech discovery enables ethanol to be made from a common variety of brown seaweed. This would by-pass the biggest problem with corn ethanol and biodiesel—the world’s shortage of cropland. The new … Continue reading

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GUEST POST: ‘KEYSTONE KOPS HALT US-CANADA PIPELINE, AND TARGET ANOTHER,’ BY: DUGGAN FLANAKIN AND REDMOND WEISSENBERGER

Oilfield workers in Alberta, refinery workers in Texas and countless factory workers just learned that the White House will not allow construction of an oil pipeline that would bring over half a million barrels of oil a day from Canada’s … Continue reading

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SHALE GAS: BOON FOR HUMANITY OR BANE? BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

The carbon footprint of shale gas is about one-third as high as if coal was burned to produce electricity, says a team of researchers who were obviously offended by the rush-to-block-any-new-fuel “study” of Cornell University’s Robert Howarth. Howarth’s recent widely … Continue reading

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HOW COLUMBUS CAUSED THE LITTLE ICE AGE, BY DENNIS T. AVERY

In a remarkable example of human-centeredness, Stanford University geochemist Richard Nevle blames Christopher Columbus for a sharp reduction in atmospheric CO2 during the 16th and 17th centuries. It seems that man-made warming believers never tire of telling us how powerful … Continue reading

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A NEW STRATEGY TO FEED THE WORLD, BY DENNIS T. AVERY

Can we successfully grow more plants per acre as a future strategy for increasing our crop yields and food production? Sixty thousand corn plants per acre—twice Iowa’s current average—could be one route to higher productivity. The world will need twice … Continue reading

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WASHINGTON POST CONVERTS TO CONSERVATION? BY DENNIS T. AVERY

For 25 years, the Washington Post has praised organic foods—while I warned that low-yield organic farming posed a threat to the world’s wildlife. I estimated that Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution not only saved billions of people from starvation, but at … Continue reading

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ADD HERBICIDES TO AFRICA’S RESCUE PLAN, BY DENNIS T. AVERY

Africa is the only continent where food production per capita is falling as its population continues to expand. Three-fourths of Africa’s food is produced on small farms that get radically lower crop yields than its experimental farms. Even if these … Continue reading

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UN TRAPPED IN CLIMATE TURMOIL, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

The man-made warming activists at the UN are trapped in turmoil over how to deal with the earth’s lack of warming since 1998. A week or so ago, the UN climate panel circulated a draft statement that would have admitted … Continue reading

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WE NEED SAFE FOOD, NOT NEW REGULATIONS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Deirdre Schlunegger, the head of an organization named “STOP Food borne Illness,” warned recently on the Huffington Post website that the government won’t have enough money next year to implement the new safety inspections authorized by the Food Safety Modernization … Continue reading

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