Reducing
emissions is an important thing to do, but arguments that we can address the
problems of local communities anywhere by
driving a Prius or purchasing offsets every time we get on an airplane are are
simply wrong.
Thanks to the theft and publication of years
worth of email from the Climate Research Unit (CRU), a major scientific center
devoted to climate science, we now have an interesting picture of the
at-times-questionable conduct of a number of top researchers in the field.
We thought Tuesday would be free day at the Seymour
Marine Discovery Center at Long Marine Laboratory in Santa Cruz, but that
policy, it turns out, does not apply in August. To be honest, I can’t blame
them, given California’s economic woes. Anyway, it felt good to pay my $4 to
gain entry into this UC Santa Cruz facility dedicated to teaching about the
sea, its inhabitants, and our relationship with them.
