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August 21, 2024
Paper finds the world was cooling for most of the last 2,000 years and started warming long before Big Coal arrived

How much money has the world wasted because of some tree ring studies?
A Chinese group has looked at all the different kinds of 2,000 year long proxies in the PAGES dataset and found that history looks quite different depending on which proxy you pick. Only the tree rings show the HockeyStick shape that matches the climate models. In other proxies, temperatures have fallen for most of the last 2,000 years, especially in the Southern half of the world. And even after the recent warming, we are not yet back to the temperatures the Romans lived through.

So yet again, we see that that current temperatures are not unusual except according to tree rings, which we know are affected by rising levels of CO2. (The paper does not mention CO2 or carbon or fertilizer).
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/paper-finds-the-world-was-cooling-for-most-of-the-last-2000-years-and-started-warming-long-before-big-coal-arrived/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paper-finds-the-world-was-cooling-for-most-of-the-last-2000-years-and-started-warming-long-before-big-coal-arrived

“All the evidence points out that we are still far from a complete understanding of the Common Era temperature variability at hemispheric and global scales,” says Professor Yang.”

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October 04, 2026

Candice Malcolm wins the 2026 George Jonas Freedom Award

https://open.substack.com/pub/junonews/p/candice-malcolm-wins-george-jonas-freedom-award

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October 03, 2026
October 02, 2026

CPP is the latest on Carney’s chopping block
The new $50 billion Brookfield partnership puts hard-earned Canadian pensions at risk.

All eyes should be firmly placed front and centre on the current situation between Mark Carney and our Canada Pension Plan (CPP). His furtive sleight of hand is in action once again. In short, his latest method of eventually transferring our hard-earned fund over to his bedfellow Brookfield has begun.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Brookfield have launched a $50 billion “Maple Fund.” Their explanation is that it will be utilized to funnel capital into critical infrastructure and other industries across Canada. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

In 1965, the CPP, introduced by the government, was initiated in order to assist people who did not have a retirement pension. Employees gave a certain percentage of their income to the fund, and the employers matched that figure. To be exact, 15% of income before taxes.

This fund consists of our hard-earned money, and we ...

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