Thursday, July 12, 2012

Scientists slam Telegraph blogger's claims that climate change will be good for the Amazon

Mongabay: Recent blog posts on The Telegraph and the Register claiming that tropical rainforests like the Amazon are set to benefit from climate change are "uninformed" and "ridiculous" according to some of the world's most eminent tropical forest scientists. The posts, published Sunday and Monday by Tim Worstall, a Senior Fellow at London's Adam Smith Institute, asserted that a new Nature study indicates that "climate change will mean new and larger tropical forests." "We're told, endlessly, that climate...

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