Economic impact of global warming is more of a hoax
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The document claims that the scientific consensus on global warming being caused by human activity is a hoax. It argues that the goal of the hoax is to funnel money to research organizations and allow developed countries to gain geopolitical advantages under the guise of addressing global warming. The document also cites emails from climate scientists that it claims show scientists are distorting and faking data to perpetuate the alleged fraud of human-caused global warming. The anticipated outcome of further research, according to the document, is that the supposed economic impacts of global warming are entirely fictional and that concerns about it are really an attempt by developed nations to slow the economic growth of developing nations.
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Letter-from-ECI-to-MeiTY-21st-march-2024.pdf
भारत सरकार द्वारा बड़े पैमाने पर व्हाट्सएप अभियान चलाए जाने से डेटा गोपनीयता, नैतिकता और चुनावों की निष्पक्षता पर सवाल उठते हैं।
EED - The Container Port PERFORMANCE INDEX 2023
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Gabriel Whitley's Motion Summary Judgment
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You have to read it to believe it, but after you read it, you won't believe it. And I included eight examples of defamatory statements/
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Economic impact of global warming is more of a hoax
- 1. Economic impact of Global warming is more of a hoax Project Details: The whole hype around global warming is actually a mirage and has been created to mint money through pumping money in research organization. Secondly, developed countries in the veil of global warming are fortifying their foothold in geo-strategic location. Computer hackers find 120Mb of emails, documents, computer code and models from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, written between 1996 and 2009. The documents show that global warming is not real and how scientists are trying to distort and fake the data to keep the global warming fraud going. We as a student group have taken up this project to justify it further and to substantiate it we need your expert opinion on the following with reference to the topic: Economic Indicators – CPI GDP PPP Retail Sales Service Sector Manufacturing Sector Exim Policies Effect on employment Brief study of economies of the following nations with reference to global warming - India China Japan USA
- 2. Anticipated Outcome of the research: 1 As per our research the whole fear about economic impact of global warming is a complete hoax. 2 It is being created by developed nations to try to curb the growth of other developing nations by putting sanctions on them to cut down on emissions so as to decrease the rate of development. 3 Global warming and economic development are two factors independent of each other and there is no correlation among them what so ever.