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11/23/2018 / By Ethan Huff

How carbon dioxide benefits the planet with accelerated reforestation, improved crop growth and re-greening

One of the quintessential doctrines of the Cult of Climate Change maintains that carbon dioxide, or CO2, is a harmful “pollutant” that’s destroying our planet. But as revealed in an in-depth report on the benefits of CO2, nothing could be further from the truth. In his paper, independent scholar and author Indur Goklany explains how […]

08/08/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Climate change blamed for drying of Great Plains streams, but it’s actually caused by groundwater pumping for irrigation

Streams and rivers in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and other parts of the central Great Plains are drying up as farmers continue to pump groundwater to irrigate their crops, a new study found. Though climate change often gets blamed for turning creeks into dry riverbeds, the water needed to irrigate one sixth of the world’s grain […]

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