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Wed, 2008-08-13 10:51Richard Littlemore
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This is NOT a Hockey Stick

Deniers Obsess about Old Science, Hiding from Corroborative New Research

In a desperate effort to distract attention from the real issue, Steve McIntyre and one of his more loquacious acolytes have renewed their attack on the fabled hockey stick - cheering themselves hoarse over their one, small "victory" in climate science debate, even while the science itself continues to pass them by.

Appended below is a little background on that debate as well as eight other graphs (supported by eight other scholarly papers), all of which independently corroborate Mann's work - and all of which the deniers have ignored with their undivided attention.

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Fri, 2008-03-07 10:48Bill Miller
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Population growth, increasing wealth join climate change as threat to food supplies

Rampant population growth and rising wealth in developing countries are driving up demand for food, a UK official says, while global warming also imperils food stores through decreased rainfall and crop failures.

The agriculture industry is going to have to double food production, but with less water than today. Another big threat to food supplies is biofuel production.

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Mon, 2008-02-11 10:12Bill Miller
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Biofuels, once the 'silver bullet' of global warming, are causing more emissions than fossil fuels

Two comprehensive studies in Science magazine have concluded nearly all biofuels used today trigger more greenhouse emissions than conventional fuels if the emission costs of producing these so-called “green” fuels are calculated.

The studies take the first detailed look at the impact on emissions of converting natural land to cropland around the globe to support biofuels development – dashing hopes for the once-popular alternative energy source.

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Wed, 2007-09-26 11:30Richard Littlemore
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Stupifying Science Alert: Waiting for the Other Shoe

My new favorite correspondent, Alex Avery, advises that the online Denier Brigade is proudly boasting about this Science journal commentary , which Avery says offers a careful reanalysis of proxy records and "finds the late 20th century is not warmer than AD 1,000."

Avery neglected to include this riposte from the authors of the original (peer-reviewed) Science article.

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Wed, 2007-02-21 09:11Bill Miller
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Science group issues its first warning against climate-change threat

The board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s leading general science organization, has issued a statement declaring global warming “a growing threat to society.” The first-ever stand by the AAAS, which publishes the journal Science, also attributes recent warming to human activity.

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Tue, 2006-08-08 06:53Richard Littlemore
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Is Climate Science Too Complex for Six-year-olds?

Amy RidenourHere is an anti-liberal-bias Newsbusters post that says climate change science is fraudulent because Amy Ridenour's children can't understand Science magazine.

(I know it doesn't make sense; we're just here to shine a light on this stuff.)

Gotta love Amy, though, for having the decency, courage and openness to post Russell Seitz's very funny rejoinder.

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