Archive for August 31st, 2007
Science Trumped by Human Nature
Posted by Paul, August 31st, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 41
We have benefited enormously from scientific advance and its practical applications. Humans are the ultimate generalists and highly adaptable because they observe and learn. The scientific method takes this one stage further: we put forward hypotheses and do experiments to validate them. If the hypothesis doesn’t fit the observations, we reject it. But if it [...]
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Poor African Farmers Evicted to Make Way for Carbon Offset Forests – A Note from Marc Morano
Posted by Paul, August 31st, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Food & Farming
Comments: 13
Note: Never mind that trees plantings to offset emissions actually makes the environment worse according to one study. (See: Carbon offsets ‘harm environment’ – BBC. The poor farmers are bearing the brunt of misguided and scientifically unfounded global warming fears and “solutions.”
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The other side of carbon trading
Planting trees in Uganda to offset greenhouse-gas emissions in [...]

