Day After Stating No Link, NY Times Blames Amazon Fires on ‘Global Warming’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2019/08/25/day-after-stating-no-link-ny-times-blames-amazon-fires-global By Clay Waters | August 25, 2019 4:38 PM EDT One day after reporting, “These fires were not caused by climate change,” The New York Times blamed the ongoing Amazon rain forest fires on….climate change. In Sunday’s Times, Johannesburg bureau chief Norimitsu Onishi falsely conflated the Amazon rain forest fires in Brazil with global warming in “Europe Tries to Fill […]
Greta’s Dire Straits: Greta ‘has been told that children had a much brighter future when CO2 levels were lower’ – But how did children live a century ago when CO2 was lower?
https://realclimatescience.com/2019/08/gretas-dire-straits/ Greta’s Dire Straits Posted on August 22, 2019 by tonyheller Greta Thunberg doesn’t go to school, because adults around her have convinced her the climate situation is simply too bad. Instead she is traveling on an expensive yacht to the US, preaching imminent doom as a “magnet for hope.” She has been told that children had a […]
How green is St Greta’s Ark? Er, not very
"Ignore for a moment both the grotesque cynicism of egregiously exploiting a clearly troubled and vulnerable child to advance an eco-totalitarian political agenda, and the incongruity that few of us can whistle up a $4million, 18-metre (60ft) yacht." https://t.co/lJwdiH7UP4 — Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) August 22, 2019 https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-green-is-st-gretas-ark-er-not-very/ By Michael St George LAST Wednesday, in a […]
CLAIM: ‘Climate change will affect the way we practice our faith’ – ‘Rising temperatures will make pilgrimages to Mecca dangerous’
https://news.sky.com/story/rising-temperatures-will-make-hajj-pilgrimages-to-mecca-dangerous-says-study-11791357?utm_source=po.st&utm_medium=referral British Muslims are being urged to take the lead on fighting climate change as a study suggests rising temperatures will make pilgrimages to Mecca dangerous. The Hajj, one of the five pillars of Muslim faith, takes place in and around the city situated in a desert valley in western Saudi Arabia. All Muslims are […]
We’re saved — if we stop buying clothes! ‘If each garment were replaced half as often, the industry’s total ghg emissions would plummet by 44%’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/decarbonization-of-the-earths-economy-is-feasible-2018-11-05 BERLIN (Project Syndicate) — According to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s main scientific authority on global warming, keeping global temperatures from rising more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is a feasible goal. The IPCC’s stance represents a move in the direction of the kind of “radical realism” that many […]
Lies, Damn Lies, And Amazon Rainforest Fear-Mongering
https://lidblog.com/rainforest-fear-mongering/ by Jeff Dunetz 158SHARES Share Tweet The MSM and other liberals are going nuts about the Amazon wildfires, but instead of being honest, they are rainforest fear-mongering. The fires are bad but not as bad as we are being told, many of the pictures being used to show the fire are from older Amazon […]
FALSE ALARM: AMAZON BURNING IS MOSTLY FARMS, NOT FORESTS
https://www.thegwpf.com/false-alarm-amazon-burning-is-mostly-farms-not-forests/ Ronald Bailey, Reason Problematic deforestation continues, but the “lungs of the earth” are still breathing. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is one of the dumbest aphorisms ever coined. Speaking as a former television producer, I’d say a picture takes a thousand words to explain. Take this much-circulated NASA satellite photo showing vast […]
Brazil’s Bolsonaro gets blamed for same Amazon fires also plaguing socialist Bolivia – But Media Ignores!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/brazils_bolsonaro_gets_blamed_for_the_same_fires_also_plaguing_socialist_bolivia.html By Monica Showalter The left is doing its level best to blame Brazil’s bush fires on Brazil’s conservative, Trump-like president, Jair Bolsonaro, and get him thrown out of office. Things are bad for him – the fires are affecting air quality in states that are his political base, and they’re concentrated not in the actual rainforest, but in areas of […]
Bolivia’s Wildfires Ignored By The BBC – The Reason? ‘Evo Morales is a socialist, unlike Brazil’s Bolsonaro’
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/08/25/bolivias-wildfires-ignored-by-the-bbc/ By Paul Homewood I doubt whether you’ll see this on the BBC: Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That’s more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years. Experts say that it will take at least two centuries to […]
Claim: Our diets are fueling flames in the Amazon
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/458719-our-diets-are-fueling-flames-in-the-amazon BY SHAHIR MASRI, Excerpt: While these are important contributing factors, the evident international concern for the Amazon that has surfaced this month is not without irony. As we look to blame ranchers, politicians, and climate for these fires, we overlook a glaring paradox. That is, underlying the long-term destruction of the Amazon rain forest […]