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Abenaki The Abenaki people believe that after Tabaldak created humans, the dust from his body created Glooscap and his twin brother, Malsumis . He gave Glooscap the power to create a good world. Malsumis, on the other hand, is the opposite, and seeks evil to this day. Glooscap learned that hunters who kill too much would destroy the ecosystem and the good world he had sought to create. Frightened at this possibility, Glooscap sought Grandmother Woodchuck ( Agaskw ) and asked her for advice. She plucked all the hairs out of her belly (hence the lack of hair on a woodchuck 's belly) and wove them into a magical bag. Glooscap put all the game animals into the river. He then bragged to Grandmother Woodchuck that the humans would never need to hunt again. Grandmother Woodchuck scolded him and told him that they would die without the animals. She said that they needed to hunt to remain strong. Glooscap then let the animals go. Later, Glooscap decided to capture the gre...

David Kear, former Director-General of NZ Scientific Research, says global warming is a non-existent threat Click here to read report Dr David Kear Climate Depot reports on a New Zealand geoscientist who has worked at the highest levels and has just released a detailed statement about why the threat of rising sea-levels has been blown out of all proportions, and “An ‘innocent gas, CO2, has been demonized and criminalized’”. “The widespread obsession with Global-Warming-Climate-Change, in opposition to all factual evidence, is quite incredible.”   Kear laments the ‘Astronomical Cost of Major Measures to Combat a Non-Existent Threat’. His scientific caliber: “Dr David Kear has a background in geology and engineering, becoming the Director General of the DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) in 1980. He is a Fellow and Past Vice-President of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and Past President of the New Zealand Geological Society [whic...

H i Stephen.  Thanks for your email and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. The "5 point plan" is really just ICLEI's interpretation of our work.  For a better grounding, I'd suggest looking at the Auckland Plan (it's big!) and the Low Carbon Auckland Action Plan,   here .  You may also wish to read some of my quarterly musings (for example,   here ) Christchurch is taking similar action on climate change.  It may be a bit dated as a document, but you may wish to see this plan .  We also work closely with CHCH and other larger NZ cities through LGNZ and, most recently, the Local Leaders Climate Declaration. Tony Moore who works for CCC will most certainly be able to provide more detailed information than I about Christchurch. So who is this ICEIL non profit organization.. It looks like a group of like minded people committed to the green ideas of sustainability … Low-carbon City A low-carbon city recognizes its responsibilit...

CO2 is Not Driving Global Warming In the latest legislative session in Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee proposed a carbon tax which will penalize anyone the government deems is producing an excessive amount of CO2. The stated purpose of this tax to mitigate the damage caused by global warming the results from CO2 being released into the atmosphere. This punitive tax is based on poor science, circular reasoning and media-fueled hysteria. Any effort to curb CO2 emissions will do exactly nothing to affect worldwide temperatures, if they are even a problem. I will prove this here. I am a NARTE certified elect...

Germany declares state of emergency over snow storms Second-highest avalanche warning level in force across German Alps after seven people died during weekend of heavy snow. by Dorsa Jabbari 9 Jan 2019 Greenland ice sheet This is the average temp for the Greenland ice sheet The data is from   The greenland Ice sheet data   Snip; As noted in the previous post, exceptional winter snow accumulation and heavy, summer snowfall, drove the net snow input mass to 130 billion tons above the 1981 to 2010 average. This was followed by a near-average melt and runoff period, resulting in a large net mass gain for the ice sheet in 2018 of 150 billion tons. This is the largest net gain from snowfall since 1996, and the highest snowfall since 1972. However, several major glaciers now flow significantly faster than in these earlier years. The net change in mass of the ice sheet overall, including this higher discharge of ice directly in...