[MCN] Washington Post: The politics of trashing the liberal arts

[Lance Olsen]

Washington Post - March 5, 2016

Enough with trashing liberal arts. It's gotten old - and really, well, stupid.
Trashing the liberal arts seems to have become 
practically a sport among some politicians these 
days. Maybe they think that the "liberal" in 
"liberal arts" is a political reference, which it 
isn't.

	*	By Valerie Strauss

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/03/05/enough-with-trashing-the-liberal-arts-stop-being-stupid/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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"The rate of movement that occurs in response to 
changes in climate, whether fast or slow, will 
shape the distribution of natural ecosystems in 
the decades to come.  ....  We demonstrate that 
the effectiveness of plant migration strongly 
influences carbon storage, evapotranspiration, 
and the absorption of solar radiation by the land 
surface. As a result, plant migration affects the 
magnitude, and in some cases the sign, of 
feedbacks from the land surface to the climate 
system."

PAUL A. T. HIGGINS AND JOHN HARTE. Biophysical 
and Biogeochemical Responses to Climate 
Change Depend on Dispersal and Migration. 
BioScience May 2006 / Vol. 56 No. 5 * © 2006 
American Institute of Biological Sciences.
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