Comment on "Indirect land use change for biofuels: Testing predictions and improving analytical methodologies" by Kim and Dale: statistical reliability and the definition of the indirect land use change (iLUC) issue

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作者
O'Hare, Michael [1 ]
Delucchi, Mark [2 ]
Edwards, Robert [3 ]
Fritsche, Uwe
Gibbs, Holly [4 ]
Hertel, Thomas [5 ]
Hill, Jason [6 ]
Kammen, Daniel [1 ,7 ]
Laborde, David [8 ]
Marelli, Luisa [3 ]
Mulligan, Declan [3 ]
Plevin, Richard [1 ]
Tyner, Wallace [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[3] European Commiss Joint Res Ctr, Ispra, Italy
[4] Univ Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53715 USA
[5] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[6] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[7] World Bank, Washington, DC USA
[8] Int Food Policy Res Inst, Washington, DC 20006 USA
来源
BIOMASS & BIOENERGY | 2011年 / 35卷 / 10期
关键词
Indirect land use change; Biofuels; Global warming; Agricultural markets; Corn ethanol; EMISSIONS;
D O I
10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.08.004
中图分类号
S2 [农业工程];
学科分类号
0828 ;
摘要
"Indirect land use change for biofuels: Testing predictions and improving analytical methodologies" by S. Kim and B. Dale [1], presents a principal inference not supported by its results, that rests on a fundamental conceptual error, and that has no place in the current discussion of biofuels' climate effects. The paper takes correlation between two variables in a system with many interacting factors to indicate (or contraindicate) causation, and draws a completely incorrect inference from observed sample statistics and their significance levels. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:4485 / 4487
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