Re: [asa] Antarctica cooling

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> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:48 AM, John Burgeson wrote:
> On 1/23/09, Christine Smith wrote:
> > Hi Burgy,>
> > As much as prudence demands that we not overweight any one study,
> particularly one in which hard data is admittedly scarce, I would not rely
> > on anyone from the Heartland Institute as a source of information.
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> I quite completely agree, of course. .." John Burgeson
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> <> What about the skepticism of the UN IPCC lead author? Looks as if his
> name will be mud soon, now, too.* :)
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> *The researchers used satellite data and mathematical formulas to fill in
> missing information. That made outside scientists queasy about making large
> conclusions with such sparse information.
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> *UN IPCC lead author, Dr. Kevin Trenberth, who is not in any way a climate
> change skeptic, COMMENTS:
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> *"I have to say *I remain somewhat skeptical,*" Kevin Trenberth, climate
> analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said in an
> e-mail. *"It is hard to make data where none exist." *
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090121/ap_on_sc/sci_antarctica
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> Echoing Trenberth?s analysis were several other scientists:
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> http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=fc7db6ad-802a-23ad-43d1-2651eb2297d6
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> <>
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> "...it has been estimated that fewer than ten percent of the American
> public are reliably in Piaget?s highest cognitive developmental stage of
> formal operations thinking. And even then, one cannot escape the cosmic law
> of *bs in --> bs out*. .."
> https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8580258&postID=6220641917448432849
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>
> ~ Lynn

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Received on Fri Jan 23 12:24:52 2009