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To: mistermj who wrote (203497)	9/19/2006 1:41:36 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Study acquits sun of climate change edition.cnn.com The sun's energy output has barely varied over the past 1,000 years, raising chances that global warming has human rather than celestial causes, a study showed on Wednesday. Researchers from Germany, Switzerland and the United States found that the sun's brightness varied by only 0.07 percent over 11-year sunspot cycles, far too little to account for the rise in temperatures since the Industrial Revolution. "Our results imply that over the past century climate change due to human influences must far outweigh the effects of changes in the sun's brightness," said Tom Wigley of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research.

To: mistermj who wrote (203497)	9/19/2006 2:54:33 AM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

"What crazy things did Terence Corcoran say while he was writing his column in the Globe and Mail's Report on Business? This page was dedicated to a running commentary on some of his more absurd pronouncements. * Good-bye Terence October 29, 1998 * Global warming January 21, 1998 * Growth and population January 1998 * Teachers and the Sun Nov. 9, 1997 * Hong Kong July 2, 1997 * Junk science June 27, 1997 * McLibel June 21, 1997 Oct. 29, 1998 Well, it's good-bye to Terence Corcoran at the Globe. He has taken up the position of business editor for Conrad Black's new National Post. Since I have no intention of reading the Post on a regular basis, I will wrap up this running commentary on his rants. Corcoran will be much more at home at the Post, where everyone else will also have been hired because they are off their rocker, and people are less likely to let facts get in the way of their ideological preoccupations. Of course, it's not clear what will happen to Diane Francis, the almost as right-wing editor of the former Financial Post. She is currently "editor-at-large", meaning that the business pages of the Post have a communal, co-operative editorship! Such a leftish situation cannot last. Presumably the competition will be good for both of them, and we look forward to the eventual triumph of the über-editor, emerging victorious from the fight with the mangled corpse of the vanquished pretender at his or her feet. The contestant who will benefit most from Corcoran's move, however, is the Globe. It has replaced him with someone who actually thinks and does reasearch, Eric Reguly, whose first column criticized CN for its treatment of its workers - a truly refreshing change! But perhaps the most telling signal of Corcoran's departure was the Globe's front-page admission a few weeks ago that Global Warming, which Corcoran spent innumerable column inches trying to prove did not exist, was a scientific fact. It was, effectively, a middle-finger salute to Corcoran on his way out.... ==========http://www3.sympatico.ca/dylan.reid/corcoran.htm Pretty funny stuff if a little dated.