Jonathan Leake at the UK Sunday Times has been swift to hail another supposedly damaging inaccuracy in the IPCC report. Africagate, the headline calls it. It occurs in the Working Group II report, which deals with the question of impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. I’ve looked up the section, which is in chapter 9 of the report, looking at possible impacts in Africa. The section is headed Agriculture (page 447-448 of the chapter). It opens with this sentence:
Results from various assessments of impacts of climate change on agriculture based on various climate models and SRES emissions scenarios indicate certain agricultural areas …
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Sunday Times opens another gate Feb 09
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“...we need to support our fundamental researchers in the excellent work they are doing, because you never know how your research is going to be applied years down the track, and what potential gains you (or your country!) might make from it.”
Aaron Small The Scientist NZ
Community based marine management in practice – the West Coast example Feb 09
The South Island’s West Coast Marine Protection Forum looks set to be the first region to put a marine protected area (MPA) proposal to the Government under the new(ish) MPA …
Spinning exoneration of Dr. Michael Mann Into “Whitewash” Feb 09
Dr Michael Mann Penn State University I have read the full report of this inquiry Concerning the Allegations of Research Misconduct Against Dr. Michael E. Mann and find the …
MapReduce goes evolutionary Feb 08
Scientists from Texas A&M University have developed a new algorithm MrsRF (MapReduce Speeds up Robinson-Foulds) for analyzing large collection of evolutionary trees using MapReduce framework. Matthews et. al have …
the power of the cuttlefish Feb 08
I found this XKCD cartoon whlie clearing out my mailbox – I found it via PZ quite a while ago now (so it’s probably circumnavigated the world net 3.5 times …
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