Climate Change Sceptics and Contrarians

Ecologgers, I think we have to analyze the critics of the dominant IPCC view of global warming scientifically. We also have to squarely face the fact that our normative beliefs and our deepest fears influence our interpretations of scientific evidence. To start, I propose a simple taxonomy

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Automating throughfall measurements

Hi there Ecologgers, Does anyone know of any means to automate the measurement of throughfall and stemflow measurements in trees. As anyone who has tried it knows, you need lots of throughfall collectors to minimize variability, and collecting the throughfall that falls into those collector

Disturbing suggestion

With regards to the following post in a recent ECOLOG: Date:Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:30:04 -0500 From:Malcolm McCallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bush's New Ruling on Mountain-Top Removal November 4 is coming fast. Something for everyone to think about. If you don't like how a parti

Scientists vs activists revisited

> Thank you for all your responses. I am quite intrigued by the variety > of thoughts and opinions, and it partly reconfirms my impression that we as >scientists are trained to be critical to a degree that might sometimes >make us forget our responsibility and wisdom. > >Even if we do not fully

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Call for papers on land use for AAG 2008

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Tenure track job

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Assistant Professor, Aquatic Biology

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Re: Disturbing suggestion

Kelly Stettner, =20 with all due respect and honor. I will not condone such actions because fo= r me it does undermine=20 the entire democratic process. However, you spoke of ethics...Whether peo= ple want to admit it or not; we are in dire striats, as a country, a people, and a world. Co= uld