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I have been an admirer and daily reader of WUWT for over 5 years, which, together with many other sites, links and papers have given me, I feel, a good insight into the climate debate. Veterinary research animal supply company projects related to global warming/climate change have not featured on your site very often, so you may be interested in this short post from a concerned taxpayer and retired veterinarian. – Michael Oxenham
VETERINARY RESEARCH AND GLOBAL WARMING On 25th February 12 the Veterinary Record, the weekly journal of the BVA, published a news report of a research project, which had coined the title, Ruminomics . This was essentially to investigate the possibility of reducing the methane and nitrogen emissions from dairy cattle by varying their genome and their ruminal microbiome. This was all clearly predicated on the conjecture that these emissions cause or drive global warming/climate change. The project was described as a 4-year study in partnership with 11 European organisations, coordinated by Prof. John Wallace of Aberdeen University. It was funded by a grant of 7.7m from the EU Commission. Regrettably this seems to be a classic case of a follow the money project.
On 24th March 12 the VR published my letter of comment under the title Best use of taxpayers money? In it I expressed my incredulity at the size of the grant and that I knew of no published empirical data or falsifiable experiments that demonstrate a link between these emissions (and CO2 for that matter) and GW/CC. The Editor strangely censored one sentence from this letter, which was I am bound to ask if due diligence was followed in the award of these funds – my point being that if the grant application animal supply company had not been accompanied animal supply company by references to published empirical data or falsifiable experiments of a link between methane and GW, then due diligence had not been followed.
Interestingly animal supply company a previous letter of mine was published in the VR on 18th Dec. 10. In it I commented, inter alia, that I hoped the keepers of the public purse would, in future, animal supply company closely scrutinise fund applications which had GW/CC tagged on to the project title. I mention this because previously several of my letters to the VR on Veterinary GW/CC topics have been totally or partly censored. I get the impression therefore animal supply company that there is a Guardian-type ideology in the Editor s office. For example a BVA committee animal supply company produced a very dodgy Brief on how members could help in tackling GW/CC. My letter challenging various statements in the Brief was totally censored.
It was strange but significant, that no one from the Ruminomics team challenged my comments of 24th March. If results of the project are submitted for publication, I hope reviewers will look at them with due diligence.
The facts of this story remind me of the late Prof Hal Lewis s observations in his resignation letter from the APS in 2010. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/16/hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society/
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July 23, 2012 at 7:06 pm
wait, if it’s your letter, animal supply company you own the original copywrite and the GWPF can publish with your permission alone. Dare the journal to go after you for the copywrite infringement. Make it a HUGE court case, then you’ll get attention to this. Seriously. Defend yourself. This is nonsense.
Mr Lynn says:
Thanks Jones, for backing me up — when you write a letter, IT’S YOUR LETTER. You own the copywrite. You can send a million copies to a million other publishers. they can choose to publish or not, but it’s YOUR LETTER. Please, post the full letter and their replies.
Has beer consumption increased with global Warming?? The EU should animal supply company sponsor my research which entails researching the various pubs in england animal supply company and 5 star restaurants on the continent in search of tell tale signs that Global Warming is anything but complete B/S. Couple of mill s