Next Ice Age Delayed by Global Warming, Study Says

The North Pole is warmer now than it has been in the past 2,000 years, a trend that is holding off the next ice age, according to the most extensive study yet on Arctic climate change. Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via National Geographic, Google News (Sci/Tech)
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Subjects: World, Politics, Sci/Tech
Topics: Environment, Global Warming, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Sep 3, 2009 - 2:25 PM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Sep 4, 2009 - 8:59 AM PDT

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Norman Rogers
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by Norman Rogers - Sep. 4, 2009

The media is so easily fooled by "scientists" with an axe to grind. Debunked almost instantly at www.climatedepot.org or at www.climateaudit.org

Unfortunately most things in the media concerning global warming are wrong.

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Philip Meyer
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by Philip Meyer - Sep. 4, 2009

This reporter understands the precession of the equinoxes, the so-called "wobble" in the earth's orbit that causes the very long-term climate changes. I read three newspapers this morning, and all of their stories on this study read as if the writer did not understand the phenomenon. The resulting sidestepping leaves the reader unable to understand it either. Where are the science writers of yesteryear?

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