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Maybe this is a little pedantic but I guess it depends what you mean by "never explored"? Unexplored by western scientists perhaps.... but I think the 100 odd ethnic groups (seafaring peoples to boot) who have populated the region for many centuries might take exception to the suggestion that...

Yep def agree with that. There are good reasons why investment in renewable energy is desirable. But the AGW impending catastrophe discourse is not one of them -- that is until it is supported by objective (i.e. disinterested/non-politicised) science that stands up to scrutiny.

Erm... :o so it was! Strange that Mick Kelly - climatologist at the CRU - sent an email (pg. 126) in Oct of 2008 discussing the: "possibility that we might be going through a longer—10-year—period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina, etc." Not sure...

It wasn't the Lavoisier Group who wrote those emails now was it! Have you actually read them T? Apart from the last decade eh -- global cooling since 1998/99 right?

There is only one way to describe the findings of the Muir-Russell review: Whitewash! Read this -- The Cimategate Emails -- long but compelling. It presents many of the leaked CRU emails, in chronological order, with a supplementary commentary. "Climategate has shattered [a] myth. It gives...

kwim time to spring clean that dusty inbox! and get in touch..

This digest hardly does justice to Prunier's full and detailed study. But as the Lords Resistance Army's latest campaign of violence draws new attention to the DR Congo, the force of his argument is to emphasise that this should not be seen as a mainly local (Ugandan and northeast Congolese)...

careful scott you don't want to upset macc's hardcore support -- all 1,125 of them :D

No way -- thats pretty mad!

Same as ^^. Had another brother who died aged 3. I was 5 at the time. Consequently there is a large-ish age gap between me and my brother (6 years diff) and my sister (7 years). Works great these days but there were times when i was younger that I felt a little resentful of my siblings for...

Interesting peice in this months edition of The Nation - Ending Africa's Hunger

Note to self: LESS HYPERBOLE! Before anyone else has the good sense to point it out, I realise that I have moderated my position quite substantially since my original thread opening post. This: is pretty embarrassing to read now :eek: Spose you could say that that was my starting hypothesis...

Defining "agroecosystems", "agroecology" and "agroecological research": Just to be clear, this is the way Altieri (see above) has it:

Examining agricultural systems from this report produced as part of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) -- a collaborative effort bringing together governments; Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs); the private sector...

Regenerating rural communities..... This paper - The Multiple Functions and Benefits of Small Farm Agriculture - challenges the conventional wisdom that large-scale, mechanized, corporate agriculture is superior to unproductive and inefficient smallholdings. The author presents evidence...

innit vim... stop huffing and puffing and explain yourself bwoi. not reads the article yet. generally though, it seems to me that debates about when precisely peak oil occurred or will occur (or foolish outright denial of the whole 'peak oil' concept) have a worrying tendancy to obscure more...

Very interesting piece in the latest edition of Ecology and Society journal (all open access): Panarchy: Discontinuities Reveal Similarities in the Dynamic System Structure of Ecological and Social Systems

Gilles Dorronsoro: 'The Taliban's Winning Strategy in Afghanistan' The Taliban strategy has been successful so far. They have achieved most of their objectives in the South and East, and they are making inroads in the North. The Taliban are unlikely to change their strategy significantly in the...

Oh and lest we forget... Prunier referenced Odom's book as published by the University of Texas Press, which is apparently incorrect! An unforgivable crime if ever there was one ;)

Agreed -- and you wouldn't remember reading it unless you fastidiously refer to all footnotes. Well yeah. And that he takes a partisan position with regards to his relationship with Sendashonga. So he hardly invalidates the majority of the book... but he does raise some questions about the...