Seriously, Miriam, I am beginning to have worrying thoughts about your ability to read responses. There was no need to send me the link to the RC; I referred to it’s recommendations in my previous post in particular the section on Land & Fuel management.

Now then, lets look at your assertions against facts. I’ll give you the facts, you compare them to your assertions. Fair enough?

I do live in the bush, on a small but productive farm in WA’s upper great southern where we crop every three years, turn off thirty to forty Dorper lambs each year, grow grapes and make wine. Fact 1: I live in the bush and produce food! No concrete in sight.

In 1992 our farm was included in an early Landcare program to rehabilitate degraded farm land which had been affected by salinity. Today, over 34% of our farm consists of habitat trees sensibly planted in avenues. I am also squarely in the Martin Staaper camp which promotes biological farming. Fact 2: I care, deeply, about the environment and actively contribute to it’s health.

My understandings of climate science and climate change are based on my background in chemistry and some eighteen years of independent inquiry. The most significant contribution to climate change in WA has been land clearing. Removal of freely transpiring trees has led to a significant reduction to rainfall. I suggest that you take a peek at C.T.R.Wilson (physics Nobel laureate 1928) for a clue and then consider work by Henrik Svensmark and CERN’s CLOUD study. More recent work, elsewhere, is also interesting and deserving of further investigation. Our rainfall so far this year is only 64% of long term average. More seriously, rainfall needed to “finish” our 2015 oat crop was only 40% of the long term average. Despite this we took off 3 tonnes per Ha, cf our best year of 4 tonnes per Ha. Interesting, nyet? By the way, an interesting result from this year’s crop : We seeded 90 kg of Wandering oats per Ha which at 40% carbon = 36 kg of C per Ha. At 3 tonnes of grain per Ha and after accounting for carbon stubble and root mass, our crop drew down 2,400 kg of carbon per Ha from the atmosphere. Fact 3: Increased atmospheric CO2 will make better use of reduced rainfall. Refer stoichiometry of photosysnthesis. Also:

http://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2013/Deserts-greening-from-rising-CO2

When it comes to consideration of the “science” of climate change, I look at what passes for science as practiced by England, Karoly et al and also look at some of the 1,300 + peer reviewed papers published by others that render the alarmists rather unclad !