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Carbon sequestration by clearing the forest floorConventional wisdom, when re-confirmed, tends to generate plenty of admiration, especially of new converts to all things ecological. And to give common sense its dues; my better blog posts tend to cover issues that make me bond with other people. But not so this story. What follows is literally an off the beaten track article involving a climatologist´s idea to clear up some of the dead wood in forests and burying it in zero oxygen underground shelters to combat global warming. 

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U.K. may get too hot for wine growing by late centuryA British professor asserts that by 2080 some parts of southern England might be too hot to grow grapes. In a book entitled ‘The Winelands of Britain: past, present and prospective‘ professor Richard Selley argues this on the basis of new climate change models indicating temperature rises of up to 5 degrees centigrade by 2080 in southern England.

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Don't bother me with the factsI am reminded at times of a childhood game that worked, if I recall, by the participants all standing in a circle, one person starts off by whispering something in the next person’s ear, then that person whispers what they think they just heard in the third person’s ear and on around the circle until the last person announces out loud what the first person had said – usually to the amusement at how different the last person’s version of the first person’s story has become in the process. The object being to demonstrate how muddled things get from one person to the next.

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