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Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet (video)
Reason ^ | March 13, 2013 | Paul Feine & Alex Manning

Posted on 03/20/2013 12:01:36 AM PDT by neverdem

Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist and other books, dropped by Reason's studio in Los Angeles last month to talk about a curious global trend that is just starting to receive attention. Over the past three decades, our planet has gotten greener!

Even stranger, the greening of the planet in recent decades appears to be happening because of, not despite, our reliance on fossil fuels. While environmentalists often talk about how bad stuff like CO2 causes bad things to happen like global warming, it turns out that the plants aren't complaining.

Approximately 19 minutes.

Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agriculture; carbondioxide; climatechange; co2; coal; energy; fossilfuels; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; naturalgas; oil; plants
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To: thackney; Sherman Logan
"Am I the only one annoyed by the increasing dominance of video vs. text communication?"

Almost every time I am directed to a video, I ignore it and move on. That is a method of communication for entertainment. If you want to convey information, it should be in writing.

I appreciate your sentiments; however, I believe this medium was chosen for the kiddee cohort that's been voting for Obama and his rats by 2:1 or more since 2008 at least. They have been indoctrinated with anthropogenic global warming with plenty of audio-visual support.

It also helps those with less than optimum visual acuity. They can listen to the audio monologue.

21 posted on 03/22/2013 10:01:32 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem
I believe this medium was chosen for the kiddee cohort that's been voting for Obama and his rats by 2:1 or more since 2008 at least.

I can agree with that. I'm not their target audience.

But if they want to send information to someone like me, they need an accessible transcript as well. I don't deny the medium has its uses. But for those that think it will replace written communication, I believe they are wrong.

22 posted on 03/23/2013 5:29:17 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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