Q4 2009 has not been good to True Believers of Anthropogenic Global Warming so far. Two big revelations have cast a shadow on, as far as I can tell, basically every piece of science1 supporting the theory that human-created greenhouse gasses are having a catastrophic impact on the planet. Breaking the Hockey Stick First came a must-read [...]
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Somehow my email address ends up on all sorts of “SEND ME PRESS RELEASES” list. Most of the press releases are stupid and poorly targeted, so I click the “Mark as Spam” button. Sometimes, though, a gem slips through. Like this one: Paul Hurley, A local Irish bar and tavern owner in Manhattan [...]
This week’s required reading is as follows: New Ocean Forming in Ethiopia — Mother Nature’s contingency plan for melting polar ice caps. In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two [...]