Saturday, November 26, 2011

St. Pete Times uses sources with cash interest in man-made climate change to support its claim that it exists despite lack of higher air temps.

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St. Pete Times chooses sources with financial stake in global warming.

11/26/11, "South Florida feels effect of climate change," St. Petersburg Times

""There is general consensus among scientists that climate change is occurring and that human activities are influencing that," said James W. Jones, director of the Florida Climate Institute at the University of Florida. "A lot of the controversy stems from the fact there's a lot of uncertainty about how much it's changing and how fast it's changing. … We need to go into the middle of this debate
Although South Florida is considered among the most vulnerable parts of the United States to climate change, the region has so far escaped the most obvious consequence:
  • higher air temperatures.

"That raises complacency that climate change is not affecting us so why should we care," said Misra Vasu, assistant professor of meteorology at Florida State University's Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies. "That's a dangerous attitude to take. Climate change has no borders.""...

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St. Pete Times sources FCI and Florida State University have large financial stakes in global warming:

Nov. 2011, "Southeastern US: Forests recognized as Important in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation," by Timothy Martin, FCI committee member

"A team of SE US forest scientists and climatologists recently received a 5-year, $20 million grant to create, synthesize, and disseminate the knowledge necessary to better manage forests to (1) increase their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; and (2) adapt forest management approaches and the planting of improved tree varieties to decrease risks from climate change....

This project...is one of three...recently awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to encourage agriculture and forestry producers to increase carbon sequestration and adapt practices to reduce the impact of climate variation and climate change.

"The Florida Climate Institute played a critical role in the conceptualization and eventual funding of this project. The built-in interdisciplinarity of FCI allowed me to make important contacts with climate scientists, and to learn about climate change research approaches in other crop systems. The involvement of FCI in the project was a concrete demonstration to NIFA of the University of Florida's commitment to climate change research. Finally, during the complex and intense period of proposal preparation, FCI staff provided very helpful logistical support. FCI played an important role in taking forest-climate research to a higher level in the region. I encourage you to become more involved to see what FCI can do for your discipline."

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5/10/10, "Florida State University gets climate-research grant," Tallahassee.com

$2.5 million from Dept. of Agriculture

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11/15/10, "Grant money to fund climate change research at UF, FSU," Gainesville.com

"The institute will coordinate research and hold educational programs to provide unbiased information about climate change, said James Jones, institute director and a distinguished professor of agricultural and biological engineering at UF."...

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Unbiased? If he said man-made climate change didn't exist he'd be out of a job. ed.


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