Classic Case of an "expert" getting it wrong. At least he saw the truth and kept moving forward. but this is why you can't give governments too much authority when dealing with chaotic and not easily understood systems usint what is "common knowledge" as a starting point:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/08/a ... more-81728
Save the planet, eat beef
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GIThruster
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Re: Save the planet, eat beef
Wow. Who'da thunk it?
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
Re: Save the planet, eat beef
Yeah, this is very interesting. If I understood him correctly, desertification may have released more carbon than all of industrial society combined? I have also been wondering recently if the change in water exchange at the surface of earth may affect global water vapor concentration, which would be a bigger driver of climate change than CO2. But, apparently, they would come together with desertification, compounding the issue and obscuring the causes.
Carter
Re: Save the planet, eat beef
40 000 elephants! 
Everything is bullshit unless proven otherwise. -A.C. Beddoe
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40,000 elephants and they moved the people off the land without even a shrug. I wonder if they'll change their minds the same way about keeping humanity around after they cull 4,000,000,000.
CHoff