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December 17, 2024

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/this-methane-nonsense-is-a-nasty-protection-racket/

"...Let’s consider a few facts that might show this racket for what it is. First, there is no evidence that the natural emission of methane from ruminants (or decomposition of vegetation in marshes or burning oil and gas) has the slightest effect on the temperature of the earth. Methane is a trace gas which comprises roughly 0.000193 per cent of the atmosphere – about 1,930 parts per billion. It breaks down to its constituent parts of carbon and hydrogen over an estimated 7-10 years.

The other bogeyman, CO₂, without which life would not exist, is about 0.04 per cent or 430 parts per million.

It’s interesting to compare the number of cattle in the US in 2024 – 87million – with the number of ruminants that grazed the grasslands of the continent before the white man got going there in the 1800s. The best estimate is that there were 60million bison, 45million antelope, 60million deer and elk, 2million bighorn sheep and a million moose. Roughly speaking, there were twice as many ruminants 250 years ago as there are cattle today. One wonders what happened to all that methane they must have created over centuries, while at the same time their grazing and dung made the plains of the Midwest some of the deepest and most fertile soils in the world.

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September 17, 2025

The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal

The America of 1960 was healthier than the America of 2025 because they lived in an environment that did not conspire against physiology.

Independent Medical Alliance Sep 17

By IMA Co-Founder Dr. Joseph Varon

Originally published by The Brownstone Institute on 09/16/2025


Walk into any American airport today and pause. Look around at the travelers waiting at the gate, the families queuing for fast food, the crowds rushing past. You are looking at a country that our grandparents would not recognize. In less than three generations, the very shape of the American body has shifted so dramatically that what would once have been regarded as rare or concerning is now routine. Airplane seats have been widened, retail clothing racks have been extended, mannequins have been reshaped, and soda cups have been enlarged. Entire industries have recalibrated to accommodate a physiology that is neither healthy nor sustainable.

Yet our cultural ...

September 16, 2025

University of Alberta law prof placed on leave over Charlie Kirk comments

https://www.junonews.com/p/university-of-alberta-law-prof-placed

September 17, 2025
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