Friday, January 09, 2009

Climate change is more than abstract idea - Opinion - smh.com.au
While legitimate science retains doubt about many aspects of global warming, such as the distribution of vegetation, the frequency of forest fires or the survival of species adapted to cold climates, the basic relationship of carbon dioxide to rising temperatures is not a subject of serious debate.
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Its appearance in newspapers is filtered by journalists, few of whom have scientific training. Any climate sceptic with any sort of scientific training is shunned by colleagues but covered in compensatory glory by the far right.
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Tanveer Ahmed is a psychiatry registrar.
A tale of two "pollutants" — The Daily Climate
LANSING, Mich. - After more than a decade of research, a team of scientists has found that by releasing one pollutant into the environment, we might help capture another.

Findings from one of the National Science Foundation's longest-running studies show that adding nitrogen to soil prompts northern hardwood forests to absorb more heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
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Andrew McGlashen, a second-year graduate student at Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, is an intern at Environmental Health News and the Daily Climate.

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