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Humanists at Risk: Action Report 2020

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 by Dave

Humanists International have published a report to shed light on the human rights situation and treatment of humanists in 8 nations.

Ohio Abortion Bill Orders Doctors to murder patients

December 17, 2019December 18, 2019 by Dave

Proposed Ohio bill dictates that doctors must follow a medical prodedure that does not exist or instead go to jail for as long as 15 years.

What is the Climategate scandal?

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 by Dave

It has been 10 years since the supposed Climategate scandal. What happened, what is the story of Climategate really all about? Origins In November 2009, a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) was hacked and thousands of their internal emails were stolen and distributed. These were then dishonestly quote-mined by climate … Read more What is the Climategate scandal?

Climate: Who should you vote For?

October 25, 2019October 26, 2019 by Dave

Normally C-Span is dull and tedious. The idea that you would grab a clip from C-Span to share on social media and then literally millions would find it utterly mesmerising should be laughably unthinkable … and yet just three letters changed all that. When it comes to ideas such as social justice, tolerance, and also … Read more Climate: Who should you vote For?

Climate and The Funnel

October 18, 2019October 19, 2019 by Dave

Last Wednesday (16th Oct 2019) the Guardian’s editor-in-chief published the following climate pledge … Today we pledge to give the climate crisis the attention it demands At the Guardian we believe the climate crisis is the most urgent issue of our times. And we know that Guardian readers are equally passionate about the need for … Read more Climate and The Funnel

Report: “Urgent Action on Climate Adaptation needed”

December 26, 2019September 12, 2019 by Dave

An international commission that is focused on climate Adaptation and is led by Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Kristalina Georgieva, CEO, World Bank, has just published a new report that calls for urgent action on climate. Who wrote it? The Global … Read more Report: “Urgent Action on Climate Adaptation needed”