Saturday, February 07, 2009

Odd Claim at Prometheus » The Collapse of Climate Policy and the Sustainability of Climate Science
Has the acceptance of the IPCC consensus changed among those who make decisions and advise them? Not at all.
Victor Davis Hanson: Works and Days » Our Brave New World
Be careful when one uses the superlative case—best, most, -est, etc.—or evokes end-of-the-world imagery. The new Secretary of Energy Chu, who seems eminently qualified and is a Nobel Prize Winner, strangely just declared, ‘We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California’, and went on to declare vineyards all but doomed here—apparently due to global warming....
Montana FWP study
In most of northwestern Montana, it’s probable that white-tailed deer are the major prey of wolves, yet the recent decline in deer numbers there is most likely due to poor fawn
survival and recruitment during the recent spate of severe winters
-in combination with high antlerless harvests by hunters and wolf-predation rates.

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