As the former head of Australia’s National Climate Centre, William Kininmonth states:‘The real challenge for society is to manage within a naturally varying climate. A total of 70 per cent of natural disasters involve weather and climate extremes. Regulating carbon dioxide concentration (indeed, if this is even possible) will not ameliorate these.’‘Less than 20,000 years … Continue reading Energy and Climate Change/Global Warming
Month: June 2017
Counterpoint
New Science Assessment on ClimateIt is timely that a group of scientists has published in the US an assessment of a large number of deficiencies in analyses which support the dangerous warming thesis. They draw on criticisms made by Professor Rafael Reif, president of MIT, of President Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Accords. Their … Continue reading Counterpoint
King Cotton
Cotton’s environmental footprint is much less noticeable today than was the case in the early 1960s, thanks largely to science and technology, says Ryan Kurtz, director of agricultural research at Cotton Incorporated.He said the highly successful Boll Weevil Eradication Program, genetic engineering, innovations in tillage, and changes in farm size and efficiency combined to reduce cotton’s … Continue reading King Cotton
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