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ISP's Slapping Techs For Lending A Hand
Mike writes "Broadband Reports is running a story about how several large ISP's have reprimanded, even fired techs who offer support in BBR's forums in their free time. BellSouth is the latest ISP to forbid any official tech support representation. Instead of sculpting PR guidelines for techs to follow, they're
scaring them into submission."
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The plots are given high levels of water, heat, carbon dioxide and nitrogen in different combinations to simulate predicted global climate change in the next hundred years.
Unless there is something more solid that they aren't reporting, this looks more like politics than science. At least, the way they report the findings sounds very skewed:
"The three-factor combination of increased temperature, precipitation and nitrogen deposition produced the largest stimulation [an 84 percent increase], but adding carbon dioxide reduced this to 40 percent," Shaw and her colleagues wrote.
In other words, they are saying that high Co2 levels increased plant growth 40%, but because of their agenda they are reporting this effect as a reduction because it is less than they would have seen if they'd done something else.
A more likely/solid conclusion might be: if the climate changes plants in a given area might not be as well adapted to the new conditions as they were to the old.
And this is news...how?
-- MarkusQ