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THE WORST CLIMATE PREDICTIONS OF 2008?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
December 30, 2008
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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EXERCISING MY GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO WATER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
December 22, 2008
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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GREEN CARS FOR CHEAP GAS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
December 15, 2008
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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FICKLE SUN BROUGHT DOWN ANCIENT EMPERORS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
December 8, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA—A North China cave stalagmite just produced an amazingly precise record of China’s rainfall over the past 1800 years, proving that variations in the sun’s activity—through weaker monsoons and poor rice crops—helped bring down three historic Chinese dynasties (the Tang, Yuan, and Ming dynasties).
In contrast, the sun sent abundant rainfall for the Song […]
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THANKSGIVING’S FUTURE: KANGAROO INSTEAD OF TURKEY?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
December 1, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Incoming President Obama will undoubtedly call for a renewed crusade against greenhouse gas emissions. Will Thanksgiving dinners in the future feature kangaroo instead of turkey?
Don’t get me wrong. Turkeys emit lots less greenhouse gas than beef cattle. Cattle today are fed lots of grain, and growing it requires nitrogen fertilizer (made with natural […]
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