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Out of place oak is 13 thousand years old

Category: Plants

One of the world's oldest plants turns out to be a 13,000 year-old scrub oak (Quercus palmeri, or Palmer's Oak) in Southern California. Apparently this tree has survived for so long, despite the fact that it was born in the ice age and there have...

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Global Warming Basics ~ 02 ~ Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Gas

Category: Global Warming

Why Greenhouses have nothing to do with the Greenhouse Effect, and more importantly, why CAN'T I microwave toast? A greenhouse is a glass house sealed to keep air in but made of glass allow sunlight in. This sunlight contributes to the heat in the greenhouse...

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Global Warming Basics ~ 01 ~ Introduction

Category: Earth Science

Every now and then I get out my old Blog Epic on Global Warming and dust it off. I'm thinking it is time to do it again. This is a seven part series of Global Warming that covers much of the basics. Enjoy. Or get...

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James Randi and Global Warming

Category: Global Warming

Yesterday, James Randi put up a blog post in which he questioned the validity of anthropogenic global warming. He has subsequently made the statement that he probably has more thinking to do about global warming, and he admits that he really knows nothing about it....

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Al Gore on Climategate

Category: Climate Change

... and other, related issues. Gore's recent book: Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Oh, and did you notice the Inhofe - "kill the gays" link?...

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More on those darn hacked climategate e-mails

Category: Global Warming

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Nature on Climate Gate

Category: Global Warming

The e-mail archives stolen last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have been greeted by the climate-change-denialist fringe as a propaganda windfall (see page 551). To these denialists, the scientists' scathing remarks about certain controversial palaeoclimate reconstructions...

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Storms of my Grandchildren by James Hansen

Category: Earth Science

Subtitled "The truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity," this might be a book you should read....

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Global Warming Email-Gate and the Smoking Gun Evidence for Lies and Distortions

Category: Earth Science

It has now been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that stuff has been made up and foisted on the American Public....

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"Climate Gate" ... the latest scandalous outrages

Category: Climate Change

A warning before going any further: This blog will not be used as a dumping ground for the text of climategate related "released" emails. I have surveyed my readers and overwhelmingly have been told that people would prefer to not see that. So don't do...

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