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Staff accuses WWF of creative science
The Agrifacts Foundation (Staf) has nothing good to say about the scientific content of a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). According to her, that report is an important source for a long-term exploration that should provide the new cabinet with a basis for nitrogen policy.
"With creative science, all balls are maneuvered on nitrogen. A lot seems to be allowed: setting aside previous research, omitting information that does not fit, providing no transparency, creating images with suggestive graphs", states Staff in an assessment from the 'Research into an ecologically necessary reduction target for nitrogen' of the WWF.
'Main cause of dehydration'
According to Staf, only nitrogen was wrongly considered as the cause of the disappearance of plant species. "Research has been going on for 60 years into the causes of the disappearance of plant species in the Wageningen Binnenveld. The main cause turned out to be dehydration due to drainage and water extraction. The latest ecological research only works with the nitrogen calculation model Aerius and comes - unsurprisingly - to the conclusion that an increase in nitrogen deposition is the main cause."
Staf previously reported that she was not given access to the substantiation of the long-term exploration 'Nitrogen space for the future'† It recommends emission reductions of nitrogen of 50 to 70%.
Linda van Eekeres
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