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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9372)2/6/2007 10:37:59 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
"Do you have anything credible?"

Of course not; your mind's made up. Why should I confuse you with facts?

I forgot da Nile sometimes freezes. Only place they ever play without hockey sticks. They don't use pucks, either. Can't be much fun.

On Friday, Feb. 2, the IPCC released the first part of the AR4. ....

The HOCKEY STICK
Over the past few years, everyone's favorite time waster was the HOCKEY-STICK debate.

The AR4 SPM weighs in on this argument:

"Paleoclimate information supports the interpretation that the warmth of the last half century is unusual in at least the previous 1300 years."
and

Average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years. Some recent studies indicate greater variability in Northern Hemisphere temperatures than suggested in the [2001 report], particularly finding that cooler periods existed in the 12 to 14th, 17th, and 19th centuries.
This statement basically validates the 2001 report's original statement about the HOCKEY STICK. I'm somewhat surprised at this no-holds-barred endorsement, particularly since a National Academy of Science panel that reviewed the science of the HOCKEY STICK in 2006 explicitly did not make such a strong endorsement.

The AR4 SPM does, however, endorse the strong statement made by the Academy panel that it is very likely that the Earth has been warming for the last 500 years.
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