Appendix 7: Presenting Data - Imposing A Pattern In Defence Of The Dominant Paradigm

The charts shown here were sent to the Coalition by a supporter who wishes to remain anonymous. The charts are to be found in the Australian Greenhouse Office’s Technical Report 43: The Impact of Tillage On Changes In Soil Carbon Density with Special Emphasis on Australian Conditions. The comments are those of the source.



Contrary to the curves imposed on the data, no link between carbon sequestration and either temperature or rainfall can be made by these studies. But the motivation to impose a known order on random data is not to be questioned. They are simply seeing what their worldview allows them to see. " Scientist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn in his book 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' says that the shared Values and norms of the scientific community form a barrier to out-of-paradigm phenomena and concepts. The shared values and norms of the scientific community form a barrier to out-of-paradigm phenomena and concepts. Kuhn says normal science aims to 'force nature into the preformed and relatively inflexible box that the paradigm supplies. No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all.'

We’re all in this together

If the energy and resources deployed by scientists and others in promoting the barriers to soil carbon trading had been invested in finding solutions to these barriers, the world’s farmers would be extracting vast quantities of Greenhouse Gases today and our world would be safer for everyone.
We can’t defeat Climate Change while we are fighting each other. For better or worse, we’re all in this together.

Carbon Coalition

The Carbon Coalition was established in 2006 to pursue the following Mission: “To see soil carbon traded and growers paid fairly for what they grow.” It is an advocacy group. Members are farmers, scientists, agronomists, and city dwellers. The Coalition organised the first 5 “soil science summits’ to bring scientists and farmers together to promote exchange and collaboration. These gatherings are now called Carbon Farming Conference & Expo. The Coalition prosecuted the case for soil carbon offsets, traded the first offsets on the unregulated market in 2007. It’s commercial arm - a not-for-profit called Carbon Farmers of Australia – publishes the Carbon Farming Handbook and delivers workshops on soil carbon and trading, called Practical Carbon Farming.
Coalition Convenors Michael & Louisa Kiely are woolgrowers in Wellington District of Central West NSW.
michael@carboncoalition.com.au
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