Sunday, December 20, 2009

deforestation is the issue

Deforestation may not be an issue in Alaska.

The kind of nonsense that we rank as spalinns is the public denial by figures with any significant degree of political power that deforestation has, and continues to have, dramatic effects on ecosystems and climate far beyond the local deforested areas.

Europeans who deny that deforestation and the draining of bogs has impacted Euorpean climate also fall into this class.

Those with access to accepted science who deny that deforestation had impacts in historical time in the Levant also fall into this class.

Stop spalin nonsense by mocking published spalinns. Don't worry about your spelling and your spellings. Spell-check is not the issue. Facts check is an issue. Theory is not nonsense: in science, theory is what counts.

If religious theology were the path to a metaphysics worth defending, then it would be critical to have state - church separation in countries such as Greece. But it is not.

Theory in science is what we must protect from the state, if not in constitutional law, then in the press.

Evolution is no longer just a theory.

Deforestation contributing to global warming is part of a theory.

Deforestation leading to non-local degradation of ecologies, species variety and viable human settlements is a fact.

Deniers with power are dangerous. Mock them mercilessly.

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