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Posted by scrabb
on October 6, 2019, 1:53 am, in reply to "Shy, trees DON'T release 'most of their carbon' back into the air when they die. I speak from direct"
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Don Lock reproaches Francis Gooding for failing to see trees as a ‘carbon capture technology’ (Letters, 12 September). He’s right in principle. Let's go back to what Norman Gray was actually replying to in the original article -- much of the response has been rebutting or denouncing what he hasn't claimed in the first place. As I've said before, I'm a layperson in this field. What I find disturbing and unnecessary is this belittling of someone by addressing him as "Norm" and the dismissive references to him as IT and not an ecologist. It's a tone of superiority and dismissal I find distasteful. People sure of their facts and scientific credence needn't resort to such cheap tactics. I asked : 'is anything Norman Gray writes fundamentally wrong or incorrect?' mack replied: Interesting question. The short answer is no; the slightly less short answer is it depends; and the longest answer is too long for the time I have to answer, but might look something like the short one, except that it's yes. If this isn't a politician's answer -- Yes, no,maybe -- then I don't know what is. And how the dickens quantum physics got into this, heaven knows. |