The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Chop the trees, ration the cars Irina Slav That we live in strange times has, I believe, been established beyond the shadow of a doubt. What was once hard fact is now open to interpretation if not outright rejected as fact, which is how we get statements, made in all seriousness, that some trees may benefit from carbon dioxide. The post-truth flood, however, is still gaining momentum. “The wildfires that ripped through Canada's boreal forest last year produced more carbon emissions than the burning of fossil fuels in all but three countries, a new study has found,” leads  a story by CBC  that podcast partner Tammy Nemeth shared with me a few days ago. The study in question was  led by  “a carbon cycle scientist with expertise in data assimilation. His work has improved approaches for estimating sources and sinks of CO2 derived from atmospheric CO2 observations, leading to insights into linkages between the carbon cycle, climate, and extreme events.” He  d...

  One Flew over the Chickens' Nest Bird Flu in Geelong can only mean one thing - Antarctic Chickens are coming home to roost. You must be crazy to believe any other explanation. DR AH KAHN SYED A private government report obtained this week in response to questions over the decision to kill over 500,000 chickens in Victoria, Australia shows that the people making the decision had no verifiable evidence of a high risk infectious outbreak. The chicken farms that were claimed to be infected were so distant from any possible bird source that it was unlikely or impossible to have happened without deliberate intervention or manipulation of testing. The CSIRO, the Australian equivalent of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is the closest possible source of the "outbreak" and it is not the first time they have been involved in the emergence of "new" viruses. The chicken cull would appear to be a manufactured crisis. This week I received a copy of a government docume...