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Shouldn't Nature have required a statement of conflicting interests before allowing Mr Grantham to write here?

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Well said Jeremy. More than individuals however I think we need statements by the worlds most prestigious scientific organizations urging action. I know some have done this already but this needs to be...

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<i>"I'm very partial to land. It's the key to building up long-term wealthâ&#x80¦I like stuff in the groundâ&#x80&#x94metals, hydrocarbons, oil, even natural gas."</i> -- Jeremy...

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I believe he stated his conflicting interests plain enough for anyone who knows how to use Google, as Les Johnson showed.However I do not understand why speaking out against your own financial interest...

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Potassium constitutes 2.6% by weight of the Earth's crust and is the seventh most abundant element. Phosphorus about 0.1%. Neither is going to run out.The immediate consequence of running low is that...

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It is wonderful to see Nature finally taking the topic of resource depletion seriously but how (tragically) typical of Nature that they chose to publish a piece by a financier rather than a scientist...

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@Michael Lardelli: So, you know about the vastly increased reserves thanks to shale gas, shale oil, and the truly enormous Athabasca tar sands. And yes, the concern is one of EROEI rather than simply...

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Jacek Piskozub: No, Grantham did not state his "conflicts". "However I do not understand why speaking out against your own financial interest can be seen as a negative."Its pure hypocrisy. Its DiCaprio...

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"I have yet to meet a climate scientist who does not believe that global warming is a worse problem than they thought a few years ago. "As Groucho Marx said under similar circumstances, you need to get...

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To Graham Poulter &#8211 my preference is to place greater confidence in the peer-reviewed scientific literature than in the self-interested pronouncements of the oil industry designed to maintain...

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It is true that amplifying feedbacks in the climate system are grossly underestimated &#8211 by the public, politicians, and the scientists themselves. They don't know how to model them, so they...

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I agree with the writer of this article as to why we need to take action now. But our strategy has been all wrong. John Ralston Saul wrote an excellent article on the failure of the environmental...

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Re: Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)

I agree with the writer of this article as to why we need to take action now. But our strategy has been all wrong. John Ralston Saul wrote an excellent article on the failure of the environmental...

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Re: Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)

I agree with the writer of this article as to why we need to take action now. But our strategy has been all wrong. John Ralston Saul wrote an excellent article on the failure of the environmental...

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Grantham has been comprehensively rebutted by Tim Worstall at http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti...

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Worstall's "rebuttal" makes some interesting points but also shows that he is blind to the role that energy plays in the availability of materials (i.e. in the conversion of "resources" into...

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<i>..almost all Hansen's early predictions, disturbingly, have proved conservative in relation to what has actually happened...</i>in 1988 in the Journal of Geophysical Research Hansen...

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Dodgy Geezer, Do you mean the same Julian Simon that stated that,"We now have in our handsâ&#x80&#x94really, in our librariesâ&#x80&#x94the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy...

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Some more points to add to this community discussion:*The title of the article refers to the important issue of the survival of life on earth & possible courses of action, in particular, more...

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IPCC 'science' is based on 7 mistakes, as any competent physicist can work out..1. Pyrgeometers measure a temperature signal: 'back radiation' does not exist.2. There is next to zero GHG emission IR...

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