Jane and Forum:
While I might quibble about the difference between dependent and adapted
to fire, for example, I get the point if what Shevtsov means is that every
single bit of life is an ecosystem or a subset of one. There is, however,
a great difference between an assemblage of species
Maiken and others, don't get me wrong. I am a strong proponent for using
good science to inform our decision makers. I have presented or helped
present statements along this line for many agency and legislative hearings
and deliberations. Usually I find it most effective to present the science
Since Wayne cited the precautionary principle, I'll second what he says with
some simpler and more direct language: If we act now under the premise that
climate change is human-caused, and we are wrong about this cause, then the
costs will be high but the benefits could still be tremendous in
Once I was also looking for data and then Finland's Matti Tukiainen helped me:
http://www.gaisma.com publishes data on
not-easy to find places like small villages in Africa and other
continents. His data are based on NASA information (Langley Research
Center Atmospheric Science data center). He
A graduate research assistantship at the PhD. level is available in the
Invasive Plant Ecology Laboratory of Dr. Tarasoff at the School of
Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological
University. The successful applicant will lead an Integrated Pest
Management project
I think Gene and Cheryl put it quite well. It all comes down to the simple
fact that all systems and life/energy processes here on Earth are
interconnected. A change in one affects others - sometimes in ways that are
not
immediately obvious. And because the interrelationships are so
That is a reasoned response, IMHO. However! I see no evidence that increased
CO2 in the atmosphere, and global warming is destructive. A lot of anecdotal
hyperbole more directed at pseudoscientific social engineering than scientific
inquiry. Where I live Hurricane Katrina did a lot of damage.
Dear Robert,
You are absolutely right that habitat loss is one of the major problems of
today. Focus on climate change is not because it is the only problem the
world faces. There is a number of planetary boundaries that all will lead
to catastrophic outcomes if we continue on our non-sustainable
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Help Free Holdren and Lubchenco nominations!
According to The Washington Post and our friends at Climate Science Watch,
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has placed a hold on the confirmation of John
Holdren as
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Maiken writes: the debate so intense, the answers so
contradictory, I would say the first results are in - there is no
consensus. Not on the problem and not on what to do about it.
Maiken Winter wrote:
I owe you all a short explanation - I developed the survey I posted yesterday
National Geographic’s Remote Imaging Department would like to announce the
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Honorable Forum:
Ecosystems are resilient; cultural systems are brittle. Nature is
indifferent, not caring. The ecosystem adapts (by structural
alterations, aka extinction and population shifts in ratio) to change,
whether culture survives or not. Que sera, sera.
WT
'Cause suicide is
Hello!
I would like to announce the leading open access European malacological
journal: Folia Malacologica. All volumes/issues are free available at
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Best wishes,
Tomasz Kaluski
The Wrangell Mountains Center is pleased to announce the Alaska Wildlands
Studies Summer Field Program. Please pass this on to any of your qualified
and potentially interested undergraduate students.
The Alaska Wildlands Studies Summer Field Program is an intensive field
course focusing on the
Are all natural systems resilient? What about the early successional
systems that human agriculture approximates? Are all cultural systems,
including hunter-gatherer societies or the Catholic Church, brittle?
Jane
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Wayne Tyson landr...@cox.net wrote:
Honorable
See www.realclimate.org.
Jane
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tom Cuba tom.c...@delta-seven.com wrote:
Maiken writes: the debate so intense, the answers so contradictory, I
would say the first results are in - there is no consensus. Not on the
problem and not on what to do about it.
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