[Pollinator] A rosy view of climate change and butterflies

[bugsrus at yorku.ca]

I had rather hoped Matthew had sent that around "tongue in cheek".
Especially as our local prime minister got broad-sided by the US ambassador
to Canada for being critical of US non-policy on climate change!

Oh my.

Laurence

Quoting Craig Tufts <TUFTS at nwf.org>:

> Matthew:
> 
> CO2 Science will indeed try to paint a rosy view of climate change
> given any way in which they can bend the research. They have very
> strong, long term ties to the coal and oil industry.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
> 
> NWF's mission is to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our
> children's future. 
> 
> Craig Tufts - Chief Naturalist
> Director of Citizen Science Programs
> National Wildlife Federation
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> Reston, VA 20190-5362
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> 
> Phone: 703-438-6438  Fax: 703-438-6468  Cell: 703-608-6726  Email:
> tufts at nwf.org
> 
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>  
> 
> >>> "Matthew Shepherd (Xerces Society)" <mdshepherd at xerces.org>
> 12/13/2005 7:17 PM >>>
> For an up-beat view on the impact of increasing levels of atmospheric
> CO2 on butterflies, read the article on the CO2 Science web site at
>
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/subject/i/summaries/butterflies.jsp.
> It seems that climate change will only bring good things for
> butterflies.
> 
> Matthew
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