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Open Thread 16

Category: Open Thread
Posted on: December 4, 2008 11:02 AM, by Tim Lambert

Time for a new open thread.

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Banana Bunker

Posted by: Bayesian Bouffant, FCD | December 4, 2008 11:52 AM

2

I'm holding out for the raisin bunker myself.

Posted by: Scott M | December 4, 2008 12:49 PM

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Anyone heard of a Russian marine geologist by the name of Oleg Sorokhtin? An article in RIA Novosti is getting some traction in the right-wing blogosphere of late (http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080103/94768732.html). For someone with a doctorate, it seems to contain a lot of erros and make a lot of claims (all unsourced, by the way). Also strange that is just surfacing now, when it was published earlier this year.

It's easy enough to counter as most of the claims he makes have been well and truly dealt with and dismissed here, on Real Climate and Grist. The 'hothouse' and 'nitrogen peroxide' references are a little bizarre, with both terms disappearing out of popular use in the 1930s. Surely Russian science isn't that far out of touch?

Posted by: Jimmy Nightingale | December 4, 2008 5:42 PM

4

Recommendation: David Archer's The Long Thaw.

Posted by: John Mashey | December 5, 2008 12:07 AM

6

Well, this open thread seems to confirm it (Dano not withstanding) that if I don't post something dumb, then nobody has any fun.

Posted by: ben | December 8, 2008 1:14 AM

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Re: #6.

Patience Grasshopper.

You are not alone in your skills, as cohenite's antics on the Duffy thread indicate.

All you needed to do was wait.

Posted by: Bernard J. | December 8, 2008 9:27 AM

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I just HAVE to point you to Emma Tom's piece in The Australian on Thursday, as the most sensible article re action on climate change that I have seen in a long time, particularly in The Australian.

Posted by: PeterManins | December 12, 2008 5:28 AM

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