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Originally Posted by August
Point is: the whole world (nature, biosphere) is falling victim to bad human habits.
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- entropy of civilisation? (Entropy: "The negative decay and degeneration of matter.")
Some further interesting posts on this program:
William M. Connolley (aka The Stoat) is a climate modeller with the British Antarctic Survey
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=48. His view on 'The great global warming swindle!' is here:
http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2007/0...ng_swind_1.php, mentioning several points and concluding with:
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And most of the other nonsense you would expect got a brief play at some point
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He's found a better version of the image I posted (obviously others had noticed a problem):
Compare it with this:
A new post entitled 'Cosmoclimatology’ - tired old arguments in new clothes (9 Mar 2007)
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=412 also sheds some seriously heavy scientific light on the topic, concluding with:
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It is possible that GCRs do have an effect on climate through the modulation of clouds, but I don't think it is very strong. I also think that Svensmark's claims are wildly exaggerated, but most of my objection lies in the way the arguments have been presented in this A&G article. I have the impression that the A&G article comes from the same school as "The Skeptical Environmentalist", which also has been criticised for cherry picking references to make mere speculation appear as more solidly founded. To ignore aspects that don't fit the hypothesis is definitely not science. Neither is adjusting data so to provide a good fit without a solid and convincing justification.
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