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I disagree about oil. We have released a tremendous amount of carbon back into the environment, that took several billion years to bury.We dug up and released about 350 million years worth as of last year.We will be adding 10's of millions every year. We cannot remove this carbon from the atmosphere with current technology. Essentially , it's too late. So, I'm not going to worry about it. By releasing carbon back into the atmosphere, we are actually helping the planet back to it's normal state, and it's beneficial to plants. It's ironic that humans came during the last group of ice ages, and we will be responsible for ending them. Another reason it is pointless to inhibit CO2 release is because if we did, we would force the ice age. So, oil companies are only doing the will of the Earth right now. No need to worry, drive your SUV without guilt
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Do you have any suggestions for credible, non-partisan, scientific sources of information regarding enviormental issues pertaining to water, soil, climate (micro- & macro- indexes) that a person could access online? If so, I'd be very interested in broadening my reading repertoire of such things.
Thank you for any assistance you can provide, Aj
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They do a fantastic job of balancing articles that are accessible to a general readership while also having material written by working scientists whose work has been through the gauntlet of peer review. They are *not* a refereed (peer-reviewed) journal so they don't publish original research, rather they report on subjects that have already been published in journals. Discover magazine also does a pretty good job: http://discovermagazine.com/ A lot of folks I know love New Scientist as well. I'm less fond of them but they still, on balance, do very solid science reportage for the general reader: http://www.newscientist.com/ Slightly less approachable (because this is an actual refereed journal) is Nature magazine: http://www.nature.com/news/index.html. The thing is Nature is the gold-standard of science magazines. It is to science reporting what the Washington Post or the New York Times are to American news reporting, functioning as the 'paper of record' for the scientific community. Cheers Aj
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Thanks Aj for providing those links, Aj
I just checked out Scientific American online and I like it that a person can purchase a copy of back issues or the current issue or subscribe in other ways. What a great resource. Thank you!
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