Tag: ecology
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Guidelines, scientific dogmatism, biased thinking...
The BBC has to adopt "clear editorial guidelines" for its reporting on the issue of climate change, MPs have said. The Science and Technology Committee said the organisation played a "central" role in informing the public. But some editors were "poor" at determining viewers' and listeners' level of expertise and sometimes pitted lobbyists against "top…
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Killing for science. Killing for fun. What's the difference?
Japan has to stop capturing and killing whales under its whaling program in the Antarctic, called JARPA II, the International Court of Justice has said. In a judgement issued in The Hague in the Netherlands today, the U.N. court has ordered Japan to revoke existing permits to catch whales for scientific purposes and to stop…
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Noah's Ark and the stupidity of modern ecology.
GENETICS could help solve the Noah's Ark problem: faced with limited space, which species do you save? Focusing on the most evolutionarily unique and ancient species could allow us to save more branches of the tree of life, at the lowest cost and effort. (1) We do not love nature. We do not trust…
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Ecology. Money. Deception.
The majority of climate scientists who believe that concerning levels of carbon dioxide are being pumped into the atmosphere have got it wrong; Instead, there should be more. Or so argues Utah state representative Jerry Anderson, who put forth a bill that would limit the state’s ability to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gas. Utah…
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Stupid. Primitive. Wise. Ecology.
Growing a forest with edible trees in Seattle, Washington. (1, 2) Edible trees. Free for everyone. Nice idea. "Innovative". But wait a minute... This is what already happens in countries like Thailand. This is what already happens in "primitive" countries in Africa. Going out of the forest, building cities, growing forests back. Wise. Stupid. Wise.…
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