Confessions of a former Greens voter | Daily Telegraph Miranda Devine Blog

I used to vote Green. Until the cause was hijacked by vainglorious politicians with no interest in genuine green politics. Emotional, reactionary tree-huggers, using environmental goodwill to climb the ego-driven political ladder.

Long Beach to study possibility of selling carbon credits to industry to offset tree costs - Press-Telegram

LONG BEACH - Does money grow on trees? Some Long Beach council members want to find out.

A proposal to be introduced Tuesday to the City Council asks to determine the feasibility of selling carbon credits potentially produced by Long Beach's 393,000-tree urban forest to help defray the multimillion dollar annual cost of tree trimming.

Shifting climate hits Rocky Mountain ground squirrels « Summit County Citizens Voice

Spring blizzards had delayed the animals’ emergence from hibernation by 10 days over the last 20 years, disrupting the delicate balance of breeding and the availability of food sources.
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“Losing just 10 days during their short active period reduces their opportunity to eat enough food so they can survive through the next hibernation period of eight to nine months,” he said.

The perils of “reason” | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine

When individuals are reasoning alone they often have a high degree of uncertainty as to their conclusions. But when individuals are reasoning together they seem to converge very rapidly and with great confidence upon a particular position. What’s going on here? In the second case it isn’t reason at all, but our natural human predisposition toward group conformity. There’s a huge psychological literature on this, so I won’t belabor the point. When people brandish “reason” and “rationality” explicitly I’m somewhat skeptical.