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Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility: Only 1 of 9,136 Recent Peer-Reviewed Authors Rejects Global Warming
DESMOGBLOG.com James Lawrence Powell . I have brought my previous study (see here and here) up-to-date by reviewing peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals over the period from Nov. 12, 2012 through December 31, 2013. I found 2,258 articles, written by a total of 9,136 authors. Only one article, by a single author in the Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences , rejected man-made global warming. I discuss that article here . Full story here.
More Oil Spilled From American Trains in 2013 Than in Previous 4 Decades, Federal Data Show
McClatchy Washington Bureau A Canadian National freight, as seen from a Via Rail passenger train, parked on a siding. These "close encounters" are a common occurrence in Canada, where passenger trains need to yield the right-of-way to the freights. (PLT movie.) More crude oil was spilled in U.S. rail incidents last year than was spilled in the nearly four decades since the federal government began collecting data on such spills, an analysis of the data shows. Details here.
Alberta Leads the Country in "Exploiting" Natural Places
iPolitics While this may not come as a shock to Neil Young, who’s compared the oil sands to Hiroshima , a national study suggests that Alberta has disturbed more natural landscape than any other province . The analysis by Global Forest Watch adds that Wild Rose Country also has two of the three areas in Canada where the rate of disturbance is the highest. Those disruptions included everything from roads to seismic lines to clearcuts to croplands. “This is a simple monitoring analysis that should be done and could very easily be done by the feds,” the report’s author Peter Lee said Monday. “(But) they’re not doing it.”
Born of the Stump - by John Fefchak
Preamble by by Larry Powell This article sprouts from the fertile mind of John Fefchak, a writer from Virden, Manitoba and a regular contributor to this blog. (It's a refinement of a piece he did, which appeared here some time ago.) I believe you'll find it both funny and provocative. In it, he speaks of modern-day policy-makers forsaking their God-given duty to care for planet Earth. Instead, they have turned their backs on ancient biblical teachings and abandoned their sacred duty as stewards of our water resources, from which all life springs. "There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jessie, and a branch shall grow out of his roots." Isaiah 11:1-10 by John Fefchak INTRODUCTION….THE AGREEMENT. Before there was anything, there was GOD, a few angels and huge swirling globs of rocks and water with no place to go. The angels asked GOD: "Why don't you clean up this mess"? So GOD collected rocks from the huge swirling
Eric Marshall 'Disturbed' by Dismantling of Namesake Science Library in Canada
The Tyee "I don't want to have my name associated with empty shelves," biologist says. For nearly three decades, the now-retired scientist built from scratch one of the world's finest collections on freshwater science at the University of Manitoba. Details here. A dumpster at the Fisheries and Oceans Canada library in Mont-Joli, Que., in an image sent by a federal union official. Related: Secret Memo Raises Questions About Why Government has Closed Libraries Scientists Decry the Dumping of Canadian research