climate change

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Unscientific nonsense proliferates across the internet. Amplified by celebrities, activist groups, and other assorted ideologues, this misinformation surrounding issues like vaccines and crop biotechnology leads many unsuspecting readers astray.

With Christmas just around the corner, you're probably finalizing your dinner plans and wrapping those last few presents before sticking them under the tree.

Reporters like to lecture the public about the importance of science while promoting obviously unscientific ideas when it suits them.

     

Let us begin with a confession. I have been hiking, fishing, and shooting sporting clays with little time to read for the last week or so.

“Florigen-regulating genes have been repeatedly modified by breeders in crops as diverse as tomatoes, soybeans, potatoes, beans, strawberries, barley, sugar beet, rice, and wheat.

“Since about the time of the American Civil War, CO2’s crucial role in warming the planet has been well understood.

The goal should be to establish evidence-based regulation understandable to the public, with clear accountability.

“And no country may be better positioned to capitalize on climate change than Russia. Russia has the largest land mass by far of any northern nation.