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By cgfi on March 10th, 2009

NATURAL GLOBAL WARMINGS HAVE BECOME MORE MODERATE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—This week, at the 2nd international conference of man-made warming skeptics sponsored by the Heartland Institute in New York, I’ll predict the earth’s warming/cooling trends for the 21st century.
 
I will be among splendid company such as John Coleman, founder of the weather channel, Ross McKitrick, who debunked the “hockey stick” study, physicist Willie [...]

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By cgfi on February 06th, 2009

ASIA’S BROWN CLOUD: BLAIM RENEWABLE FUELS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—That vast cloud of brown pollution hanging over Asia comes from wood and cattle dung being burned in millions of Third World home-fires, according to Orjan Gustafsson, a bio-geochemist from Stockholm University. Gustaffsson recently tested the smoke of the Asian brown cloud with a newly developed radiocarbon technique—and found that two-thirds of the brown [...]

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By cgfi on January 21st, 2009

BLAME CORN HARVESTERS FOR THE CRASH OF FLIGHT 1549, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE VA—Did global warming dump U.S. Airways flight 1549 into the Hudson River by attracting more geese to New York airports? Time Magazine says yes. Time notes a four-fold increase in airplane bird strikes since 1990, and blames global warming and destruction of wild bird habitat for the increased collisions.
 
Time reached the wrong conclusion. Research [...]

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By cgfi on December 30th, 2008

THE WORST CLIMATE PREDICTIONS OF 2008?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—“2008 will be the hottest year in a century:” The Old Farmers’ Almanac, September 11, 2008.
 
We’re now well into the earth’s third straight harsher winter—but in late 2007 it was still hard to forget 22 straight years of global warming from 1976–1998. So the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicted 2008 would be the hottest year [...]

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By cgfi on December 22nd, 2008

EXERCISING MY GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO WATER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The United Nations’ new “senior advisor on water”—a Canadian woman named Maude Barlow—says everybody has a right to water.
 
What that means, I guess, is that I have a right to take a bucket down to Whiskey Creek—a mile away—and carry home enough water to drink (after I boiling it to kill any bacteria left [...]

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By cgfi on December 15th, 2008

GREEN CARS FOR CHEAP GAS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Now we’re going to give Ford, GM and Chrysler billions of dollars so the Feds can order them to build more “green” cars—with gas now costing $1.49 per gallon. How many Americans will pay $30,000 for one of these new high-mileage lightweights instead of getting a family-protective SUV for the same bucks? Or a [...]

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By cgfi on October 03rd, 2008

RECORD SOUTH POLE OZONE HOLE PREDICTED, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—A Canadian scientist says the largest known hole in the ozone will occur over the South Pole in the next week. If that happens, it will help us understand global warming.
 
Dr. Qing-Bin Lu, of Canada’s University of Waterloo, says NASA satellites and laboratory measurements show cosmic rays are the real cause of the [...]

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By cgfi on September 23rd, 2008

PELOSI CHANGES HER MIND ON DRILLING–SORT OF, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Nancy Pelosi has changed her mind. She’ll allow a vote on drilling for America’s offshore oil potential after all—sort of.     
 
To paraphrase the old saying, however, “A woman convinced against her will is of the same opinion still.” Pelosi’s first reaction to the public’s drilling demands was, “We’ve got a planet to save. Nothing [...]

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By cgfi on September 17th, 2008

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DIFFER SHARPLY ON ETHANOL, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Barack Obama and John McCain have sharply different visions of ethanol in the nation’s future. Obama wants more ethanol, while McCain thinks we should probably have less. Both say man-made global warming is a serious threat, and both say they want the best for the nation’s farmers.
 
At the gas pump, Consumer Reports in 2006 [...]

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By cgfi on June 16th, 2008

WILL GREENS SACRIFICE THEIR “SACRED COWS”?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Wired Magazine has published a list of “Green sacred cows” it says must be sacrificed to save the planet. Wired’s founding editor, Kevin Kelly, formerly edited the Whole Earth Catalog, so he has credentials for rethinking what it means to be Green. 
   
 “Today, one ecological problem outweighs all others: global warming,” says Wired’s [...]

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