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‘Plastic wood’ is no green guarantee : Nature News & Comment

some researchers fear that a knee-jerk shift away from tropical timber could backfire on the environment.

The 100,000 Year Problem | The Resilient Earth

The conclusions we should draw from this is that orbital variations are the primary driver of climate change on Earth. Over time the effective period of the forcing may change as resonance frequencies shift but it is a combination of planetary motion and solar insolation that moves our climate into and out of glacial periods. All evidence indicates that the 100kyr cycle persists and our planet is headed for another period of glaciation, a period that will cause greater problems for human civilization than any of the predicted ravages of anthropogenic global warming. Unlike global warming this threat is for real. In short, do not fear the heat, fear the cold.

DC flood barrier (@politico) wise in warming...

DC flood barrier (@politico) wise in warming world, but wise regardless (@NCPCgov) given past inundations

Lewandowsky, Cook and the Barack Obama tweet that wasn’t « JoNova

Twitter has “verified” the BarackObama account, and you might ask what verified means anymore. Twitter says it is “used to establish authenticity of identities on Twitter”. As if it’s authentic for a team of people who aren’t Barack Obama to use his name, position and photo to send out partisan messages in an officially non-partisan way. Twitter, I don’t think this is going to work out well.