All it would require would be for the trustees to re-instatate her and for the person who dismissed her to be fired, along with anyone who tried to get in their way. So, why are the trustees so otiose?

Rufus T. Firefly: Forests, new or mature, whether they burn or just die, are part of the natural short-term cycle of CO2, which is basically a wash in terms of atmospheric CO2.

Climate scientists are concerned with the burning of fossil fuels because that releases literally gigatons of old carbon from old forests sequestered in the ground over millions of years, which does increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

From there the argument is about how significant that increase is. FWIW 500 million years ago there was 20x more CO2 in the atmosphere than today.

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_1.shtml

As I’ve said many times before academia is long gone, don’t even look for its redemption in any way.

“So you know new and young trees consume a lot more CO2 than old growth trees?”

“You also know forest fires release tremendous amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere?”

“So then you would be for lumber companies managing forests? Fell mature trees, plant new ones and use the wood in furniture and construction, then, at end of use that goes into landfill to sequester the carbon under the ground and out of the atmosphere, right?”

I hope I’m wrong, but doubt I am; she won a battle, but will lose the war. Her opponents are almost certainly small minded, petty and vengeful people. She is led by a pursuit of truth, they are motivated by emotion and a desire for control. They have not learned anything from her. They only saw her approach reduced their power at this time. They will not forget.

Change this, then everything else changes.