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Hidden history about Madrid 1995: a look at the conference that changed the world

By / 15 Comments / 11 May 2019

Summary:  Today we have an excerpt from a longer work describing one of the key global diplomatic meetings shaping the early 21st century world, our equivalent of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.  In the era of 4GW State-to-State wars are replaced by global conferences setting policy about currencies, trade — and climate change. Excerpt …

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Obama opens his Administration with a powerful act that will echo for many years

By / 20 Comments / 9 February 2015

On 21 January President Obama opened his Administration with a series of actions powerful both symbolically and substantively.  These will have far-reaching effects on America, esp on the climate science debate.  That’s good, because the stakes are high and time may be growing short. Memorandum about the Freedom of Information Act Memorandum about Transparency and Open Government Executive Order about Presidential Records …

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Peer review of scientific work – an inadequate basis for big public action

By / 4 Comments / 11 May 2019

Summary:  After a decade of stone-walling and evasion by major scientific journals about climate science articles, I find it astonishing that so many folks regard this as a sound basis on which to construct public policy.  If the Food and Drug Administration approved drugs in this way, people would be dieing like flies from bad …

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