Hm. Do you know how many so called "academics" are nothing but a shills for certain political agenda and whore themselves for the tenure and keeping of their $180K salary. Many are criminals who deliberately spread dangerous lies that are used to justify murder of innocent people. I have seen it on many academic lists. Lists are MODERATED and operate like a wolf pack. Administrators maintain behind the scene communication with the shills who attack any dissenting opinion that exposes fraudulent information. Dissenting posts are severely edited or blocked. So the final result is fine tuned "discussion" that provides false impression of uniform view. It is shameful, but the fact of life. Even Wikipedia often provides more facts than many "academic" liservs.
Examples?
I sure do. I do independent research on my own nickel thank you.
I have seen it on many academic lists. Lists are MODERATED and operate like a wolf pack. Administrators maintain behind the scene communication with the shills who attack any dissenting opinion that exposes fraudulent information. Dissenting posts are severely edited or blocked. So the final result is fine tuned "discussion" that provides false impression of uniform view. It is shameful, but the fact of life.
My point in citing it was that I see quite a bit of the output and am not impressed with what I see in the way of scholarship, much less originality. The correlations I have found, both technical and literary, are so numerous and broad, and all pointing at the same thing, that the model bears serious investigation.
There is absolutely no doubt that removing human animal managers from a landscape can have disastrous consequences for vegetation, either because of overgrazing or (surprising to many) undergrazing. In either extreme thereafter, the desert can propagate like peeling the skin off a banana. Lose the nutrients to the wind and it is very hard to recover. As the process propagates, it can become continental in scale, just as it is doing in the American Southwest. At that point, because of the change in infra-red adsorption on the surface, local weather patterns will reflect the change.