Archive for May 11th, 2008
Good News on High Fuel and Food Prices – A Note from Ian Mott
Posted by Ian Mott, May 11th, 2008 - under Opinion.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear, Food & Farming
Comments: 40
The moralising on the supposed evils of converting grain to biofuel and pushing food prices to record levels in a soon to be hungry world has only just begun. It has been described as nothing less than a “crime against humanity” by UN expert, Jean Ziegler and these sentiments were also echoed by the IMF. [...]
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Best Bear Papers – A Note from Bob Ferguson
Posted by jennifer, May 11th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 6
Two of the best papers that go directly to the heart of the issues on the polar bear listing as endangered by the US government are:
Demographic and Ecological Perspectives on the Status of Polar Bears, by Dr Mitchell Taylor and Dr Martha Dowsley, March 2008,
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/demographic_and_ecological_polar_bear_perspectives.html
Taylor and Dowsley are world class.
Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy [...]

