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62. Ecological Heresy (Part 3)
Conventional wisdom on the connection of CO2 levels to land use is equivocal to the IPCC and amenable to experimental verification.
Apr 11
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Jonathan Burbaum
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61. Ecological Heresy (Part 2)
It doesn't matter if you remove carbon from the atmosphere or the terrestrial biosphere. This leads to the logical, if uncomfortable, conclusion that…
Apr 10
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Jonathan Burbaum
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60. Ecological heresy (Part 1)
The data speaks: Cultivating sugarcane is measurably better than a natural rainforest.
Apr 9
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Jonathan Burbaum
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59. Agriculture and Climate <end>
Deforestation has been happening for millennia with no effect on climate. Ecologists derive complex land-use models that don't pass even the simplest…
Apr 6
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Jonathan Burbaum
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58. Agriculture and Climate (Part 9)
Complex models claim to predict the impact of land use changes on the biosphere and climate, but they are difficult to analyze, underestimate…
Apr 5
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Jonathan Burbaum
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58. Agriculture and Climate (Part 9)
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57. Agriculture and Climate (Part 8)
The "missing sink" controversy of the 1980s has been resolved in favor of geochemistry. Why do professional scientists continue to give weight to models…
Apr 4
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Jonathan Burbaum
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57. Agriculture and Climate (Part 8)
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56. Agriculture and Climate (Part 7)
As a C4 plant grown in the tropics, sugarcane captures more carbon dioxide per year (around 85 tons per hectare) than other crops, and it does so…
Apr 3
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Jonathan Burbaum
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56. Agriculture and Climate (Part 7)
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55. Agriculture and Climate (Part 6)
The data is the data, everything else is interpretation. And it matters that we plant, as well as what we plant
Apr 2
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Jonathan Burbaum
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55. Agriculture and Climate (Part 6)
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March 2024
54. Agriculture and Climate (Part 5)
Are trees the best use of land for carbon capture, and, if not, then what is? The answer could surprise you!
Mar 30
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Jonathan Burbaum
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54. Agriculture and Climate (Part 5)
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53. Agriculture and Climate (Part 4)
Different ecosystems capture and retain different amounts of carbon dioxide based on satellite models. Rainforests show high photosynthesis but also…
Mar 29
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Jonathan Burbaum
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53. Agriculture and Climate (Part 4)
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52. Agriculture and Climate (Part 3)
Measuring Net Primary Productivity (NPP) for land areas is essential to understanding the relationship between land use and carbon sequestration. On a…
Mar 28
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Jonathan Burbaum
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52. Agriculture and Climate (Part 3)
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51. Agriculture and Climate (Part 2)
Despite ample "peer review," ecologists' models exaggerate the carbon benefit of planting trees, particularly when the baseline is chosen poorly.
Mar 27
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Jonathan Burbaum
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