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A new study poses a problem for biofuel proponents and agriculture alike: excessive and careless use of fertilizers has been fingered as the driver of growing atmospheric nitrous oxide concentrations. The study, published in Nature (abstract here), drew on the 40 years of atmospheric samples collected by CSIRO (the …

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  2. JohnSmitty
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    Oh look, yet another scare story from the CSIRO... *yawn*

    I guess they felt in this weeks staff meeting that people weren't sufficiently scared about future droughts and heat waves since we've had one of the coldest and wettest summers on record and this may have had too many people laughing at them.

    This goes doubly so over their 2008 predictions of the drought then being the new normal, since then we've had 3 or 4 years of flooding in different parts of Australia.

    CSIRO: 0

    Mother Nature: <too many to count>

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  3. Michael Dunn
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    " growing atmospheric nitrous oxide concentrations." At least we'll all go laughing when we go!

    It's my anaeshetist's gown.

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  4. Goat Jam

    Would this be the "warming" that stopped happening 10 years ago perhaps?

    When Liebor gets punted into the political wilderness next year, the first thing the LNP should do is dismantle the CSIRO, they are clearly now little more than a political propraganda machine these days.

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      Boffin

      But why stop there?

      Once they're done scrapping the CSIRO, move on the the Australian BoM. That could be a warm up for going to war with the following list of science organisations which warn us about AGCC:

      American Association for the Advancement of Science

      American Astronomical Society

      American Chemical Society

      American Geophysical Union

      American Institute of Physics

      American Meteorological Society

      American Physical Society

      Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

      British Antarctic Survey

      Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences

      Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

      Environmental Protection Agency

      European Federation of Geologists

      European Geosciences Union

      European Physical Society

      Federation of American Scientists

      Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies

      Geological Society of America

      Geological Society of Australia

      International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)

      International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics

      National Center for Atmospheric Research

      National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

      Royal Meteorological Society

      Royal Society of the UK

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