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Peculiar Plant Could Help Us Reconstruct Ancient Earth’s Climate

Ancient horsetail plants are helping scientists unlock Earth's distant climate history. Their extraordinary ability to concentrate water isotopes offers a new window into prehistoric humidity, water cycles, and ecosystems dating back hundreds of millions of years.

Fig Trees May Benefit Climate By Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Stone - New Scientist

Fig Trees May Benefit Climate By Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Stone - New Scientist

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer

Describing Photosynthesis and Respiration

Describing Photosynthesis and Respiration

Respiration is part of a biological carbon cycle, not necessarily the introduction of new carbon into the system.

San Antonio Company is Fighting Climate Change 1 Acre of Cattle Grazing Land at a Time

San Antonio Company is Fighting Climate Change 1 Acre of Cattle Grazing Land at a Time

Grassroots Carbon eyeing 'huge growth' selling carbon credits by partnering with ranchers on regenerative practices

What Happens to the World if Forests Stop Absorbing Carbon? Ask Finland

What Happens to the World if Forests Stop Absorbing Carbon? Ask Finland

Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores

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Atlantic Hurricane Season

‘There’s Been No Increase’: Scientists Debunk Climate Change Claims About Hurricanes

Hurricanes are now ’smaller and more compact‘ says a meteorologist, but the predicted ferocious season will become a ’political football’ for climate alarmism.

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UN Says Melting Arctic Ice is a Key Indicator of Climate Change—But It's Not Melting

Climate policy based on an assumed relationship between CO2 and Arctic ice levels is problematic, say scientists.

Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data, Climate Experts Say

Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data, Climate Experts Say

Meteorologist finds 96 percent of NOAA temperature stations located in ‘urban heat islands,’ including next to exhaust fans and on ‘blistering-hot rooftops.’

Two Princeton, MIT Scientists Say EPA Climate Regulations Based on a ‘Hoax’

Two Princeton, MIT Scientists Say EPA Climate Regulations Based on a ‘Hoax’

Physicist, meteorologist testify that the climate agenda is ‘disastrous’ for US

Ocean Depth Comparison

Ocean Depth Comparison

In all likelihood the interaction of the ocean, and fluctuating energy output from the sun, controls global climate – including long term warming and cooling trends – aka ‘climate change’.

USAgency to Limit Predator Killing Methods in Idaho

US Agency to Limit Predator Killing Methods in Idaho

“We-the-people’s war on wildlife and biodiversity is alive and well, as described in the article below. NOTE: this article was originally published to APNews.com on June 29, 2022. It was written by Keith Riddler. OISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. agency responsible for killing wolves and

Head of Key Meteorological Organization Slams Climate Extremists, in Unprecedented Move

Head of Key Meteorological Organization Slams Climate Extremists, in Unprecedented Move

The head of the world’s foremost weather science organization issued a surprise rebuke to climate alarmists in remarks published on Sept. 6, marking what may be, according to some experts, one of the most significant developments in the climate debate in decades

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Farmers Across High Plains Brace for Hard Times as Drought Bears Down

On the Southern Great Plains dry spells are normal. Although farmers and ranchers can’t make it rain, they can keep soil healthy, to make the most of what rain they get. Any home gardener knows that plant beds without mulch cover or plenty of soil organics need more water,

Environmental Quality Is More Than Just the Climate

Environmental Quality Is More Than Just the Climate

The United States has done a very good job of reducing carbon emissions and human pollutants from sewage and industrial chemicals. But, simultaneously we have unleashed a devastating new environmental problem that has no smell or taste: pesticides and other farmland and rangeland chemicals. These have been in growing use

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US Drought Falls to Record Low

Good news for quail and wildlife: It looks like we will dodge the drought bullet for the moment. Now is the time to implement the range recovery practices that will mitigate the next dry cycle. NOTE: This post initially appeared on TheGWPF.com on April 28, 2017 Drought in the