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The Myth of Oil Addiction
It’s a trick employed by rhetoricians from time immemorial. When their case against an opponent is unpersuasive on the merits, they invoke the image of something their target audience fears or hates....
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Is Flood Magnitude in the USA Correlated with Global CO2 Levels?
No — or, more precisely, not yet — conclude R.M. Hirsch and K.R. Ryberg of the U.S. Geological Survey in a recent study published in Hydrological Sciences Journal. “One of the anticipated...
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Antarctica: New Evidence Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age Were Global
Did the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) occur only in Europe, or were they global in scope? This is a hotly debated question, because it is harder to make the case that the warmth...
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Is Today’s Climate Warmer than the Medieval and Roman Warm Periods?
In 2001, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) featured a graph of Northern Hemisphere temperature history from a 1999 study by Profs. Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm...
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Was the Medieval Warm Period Confined to Europe?
That’s what the self-anointed ‘consensus of scientists’ claims. As noted in a previous post this week, right after the IPCC famously declared that the 1990s were likely the warmest decade of the past...
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Scientists Find No Trend in 370 Years of Tropical Cyclone Data
With Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) citing Hurricane Sandy as a reason to have another go at climate legislation, to say nothing of the media spin depicting Sandy as...
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Sen. Whitehouse Fumes at ‘Climate Deniers’
In a fiery speech yesterday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) ”calls out” “climate deniers.” In the first half of the speech he goes ad hominem, attacking opponents as “front groups” who take payola...
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