Archive for July 28th, 2011

Is Criticism of IPCC out of Proportion?

By Keith Kloor | July 28, 2011 1:56 pm

Given much of the recent reporting of the IPCC’s work, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a tinpot group of green zealots, rather than the greatest feat of global scientific cooperation ever seen. Its reports are approved and endorsed by every nation on the planet, making it utterly unique and authoritative.

From Damian Carrington’s defense of the IPCC in the Guardian. Mark Lynas, over to you…

 

CATEGORIZED UNDER: climate change, IPCC
MORE ABOUT: climate change, IPCC

The Case for GMO's

By Keith Kloor | July 28, 2011 11:18 am

When you can grow more food using the same inputs of land, water and fertilizer, everyone — farmers, consumers, hungry people and anyone who cares about CO2 concentrations in the earth’s atmosphere — is better off.

From a profile of an environmentally-minded owner of a California-based R & D biotech company, who says he wants to

use the the tools of plant biotechnology, and point them at saving the environment.

I guess that makes him an enemy of Greenpeace and all the other anti-GMO fanatics who call themselves environmentalists.

CATEGORIZED UNDER: biotechnology, climate change, GMOs
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