Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarah Bartsch et al. study the costs and benefits of face mask use, and conclude that even without factoring in improvements to public health mask mandates produces positive outcomes from a financial perspective, while Caroline Alphonso reports on Ronald Cohn’s exhortation for Ontario not to

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A Puff of Absurdity: IPCC – On Land Use

The most recent IPCC special report is on “desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems”. The video at Lorne’s post does a nice summary, and Climate and Capitalism has a thorough run-down, but Mound‘s has more flavour to it. GlobalEcoGuy has some

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The Disaffected Lib: Remember, It’s the IPCC and It Can Never Tell the Whole Truth

The oft-maligned Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change is, admittedly, something of a strange bird.  It doesn’t conduct climate change research.  It merely collects the research undertaken by universities, government agencies and NGOs, digests the important stuff and then issues advisory reports to governments. The IPCC reports are usually off-mark.  They

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