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Boeing Celebrates 737 Max Being Carbon Free for 1 Year

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Boeing Celebrates 737 Max Being Carbon Free for 1 Year

Boeing Celebrates 737 Max Being Carbon Free for 1 Year

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBoeing celebrated it’s Boeing 737-Max being greenhouse-gas free for one year recently, inviting investors to lap up more stocks of the stupendous aircraft company.

100% of Australian Animals Now Dead, Protecting Australians from the 98% of Them Which Were Poisonous

100% of Australian Animals Now Dead, Protecting Australians from the 98% of Them Which Were Poisonous

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCanberra—In startling climate change news, it has been reported that literally every single, last animal in Australia has been killed by fires in as a result of Catastrophic Global Warming©, which is a step below the IPCC’s predicted Apocalyptic Global Warming ©, which would also have killed the humans. (Though some climate change deniers have pointed out that the rising ocean level would have canceled out the wildfires.) As of…

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Global Warming Alarmists & Climate Change Deniers: How to Have Impossible Conversations with Terrible People

Global Warming Alarmists & Climate Change Deniers: How to Have Impossible Conversations with Terrible People

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Reading Time: 6 minutes“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”…

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Climate Change Models Are Not Designed

Climate Change Models Are Not Designed

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Reading Time: 4 minutes“There is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pointless indifference…We are machines for propagating DNA…It is every living object’s sole reason for being.” Dr. Richard Dawkins, a famous biologist said that, and on atheism, it seems to me that while it’s sad, it’s also true. One weird aspect that atheism commits one to is the denial of design—design of any sort, not just of…

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  • •Blue—Hiking plus kayaking trips
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