Environmental Science question?

Question

The scientific method establishes a process of experimentation and outcome that others can replicate. As technology and knowledge improves over time, future researchers may tweak or even dispute previous findings. Can anybody think of any recent examples of this?

Answer 1

The whole Global Warming argument has detractors as well as a lot of valuable science backing up the theoretical basis of the potential nightmare;

There's a whole heap of stuff which has refuted the original claims that Nuclear power was a good thing, too, such as the fact that it is "perfectly safe". The disasters of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island put paid to this, as well as the fact that it still produces waste which cannot be dealt with;

The Tobacco industry has had every one of their claims refuted by modern technology in medicine;

One more that I know through personal experience is the claim that logging an Old Growth forest replicates the actions of wildfire, in that fires regenerate forests like logging does. This has been proven time and again to be completely without factual basis. There's also the argument from the timber industry that young forests (as in those which happen post-harvesting) are good for the environment in that they remove a lot of C02 from the atmosphere. Recent research has proven such claims to be false due to the fact that Old Growth trees store CO2 in their tissues for their entire lives and this store is completely released once the tree is cut down and processed.

There are plenty of others, but this should give you a few to work with.

Love and Light,


Jarrah