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NHL Jumps on the Global Warming Bandwagon

NHL Jumps on the Global Warming Bandwagon

America’s National Hockey League has become the latest organisation to claim that global warming threatens its future. Despite the fact that most of its rinks are indoors, it is maintaining that rising temperatures may melt frozen lakes, thus making it

Half of California's School Children Now of Latin descent

California Gov Jerry Brown sees the current border crisis more as a “humanitarian” crisis, than a political one and he also pointed out that currently “half of California’s school-age children are of Latin descent.”  His remarks came during a meeting with Mexico’s

POLL: USA Leads World in 'Climate Change Denial'

WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) —A new poll offers details on the way citizens of the world think about climate change, and U.S. participants are looking particularly ignorant to the risks of global warming. Only one in four Americans said climate

Tom Steyer's Epic Green Fail

Tom Steyer's Epic Green Fail

Tom Steyer, the fossil-fuel-powered hedge funder, has suffered a series of setbacks in his $100 million campaign to save the planet from ‘global warming’ by destroying the U.S. economy. Earlier this year, Steyer announced that he wanted to make climate

Cameron Praised Gillard for Introducing Carbon Tax

Cameron Praised Gillard for Introducing Carbon Tax

Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, personally congratulated former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard when her Labor government introduced the carbon tax. In a move described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a “clear embarrassment” for then opposition leader Tony

BBC 'Today' Programme Obsesses Over Climate Sceptic Group

BBC 'Today' Programme Obsesses Over Climate Sceptic Group

BBC Radio 4’s flagship ‘Today’ programme this morning dedicated a whole feature on the charitable status of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), despite management effectively ‘banning’ its head, Lord Lawson, from the airwaves. The story focussed on the fact

BBC Flip-Flops on Climate Change Sceptics

BBC Flip-Flops on Climate Change Sceptics

The BBC should air the views of sceptics of man-made global warming after all, according to the editor of Radio 4’s flagship ‘Today’ programme. Jamie Angus, who edits the radio station’s morning current affairs show, said that sceptics like Lord

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Brandeis University's Faculty Listserv

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Brandeis University's Faculty Listserv

According to its mission statement, Brandeis University was founded to “embody its highest ethical and cultural values and to express its gratitude to the United States through the traditional Jewish commitment to education.” The school pledges that its faculty will

Scientists say hotter climates mean more kidney stones

PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (UPI) — Kidney stones aren’t the first thing that come to mind when pondering the ramifications global warming. But scientists aren’t joking when they say hotter climates will increase the chance of the painful calcium masses forming

WSJ is Too Old to Appreciate Venture Capital

WSJ is Too Old to Appreciate Venture Capital

With the Wall Street Journal turning 125 years old this week, it is humorous that its tech writer, Christopher Mims, chose to dismiss the lack of “net social benefits” by venture capital (VC) in an article titled “Is Silicon Valley