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  It's a logging town . . .

  . . . and the mine closed down 18 years ago.  The economy doesn't depend on mining.

  And no, dying of asbestosis is not something that they "should've seen coming."  They were repeatedly lied to.On EPA talked out of declaring public-health emergency in asbestos-ridden town posted 1 year, 1 month ago 6 Responses

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  I, scientist, you scientist

  See, here's the thing.  The lists of "skeptical scientists" are, in fact, lists of people who hold scientific degrees.  You might find the opinions of thousands of medical doctors, mechanical engineers, and mathematicians to have merit, but I don't.  I have a scientific degree.  Lot's of people have scientific degrees.  My professional opinion on AGW is as worthless as it is on brain surgery or rocket science.

  It's telling that of the 31,000 names on the Oregon petition, only 40 of them are climatologists.  I'd like to see them identified, so we can determine if they have ever challenged AGW in peer reviewed work.  When it comes to that, these "skeptics" hide under rocks.  The people who do publish are the same ones we've all come to know and love.

  And are you going to tell us which of the reconstructions in AR4 used oxygen isotopes in wood cellulose and thus back up your assertion that "most if not all" will need to be thrown out?On Previous warm periods don't mean we're not responsible for this one posted 1 year, 4 months ago 7 Responses

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  I, Scientist

  There are 10 million people in the US (to say nothing of the world) with scientific degrees, and it's safe to say that you will find thousands of them who believe anything.  Strangely enough, they don't manage to get much published because the vast majority know nothing about the topic and couldn't write a paper if they tried (they usually don't).

  On another note, perhaps someone can point out the AR4 temperature reconstructions that actually use oxygen isotope ratios of wood cellulose.  Then we could determine if "most if not all" are affected by the findings of this recent paper.

  And if Tim Ball ever manages to find a working phone, I hope Dessler gets the opportunity to ask Canada's first PhD climatologist if he thinks that CO2 levels will "plummet" again like he believes they did in the early '90s.On Previous warm periods don't mean we're not responsible for this one posted 1 year, 4 months ago 7 Responses

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  Link

  Oreskes doesn't need to struggle to establish a link.  The research program that Seitz ran for R.J. Reynolds was established because "if we can refute the criticisms against cigarettes, we may remove government's excuse for imposing heavy taxes on the product."

  Read the CEO's introduction of Seitz.
  http://tobaccodocuments.org/ness/29154.html?pattern=frede ...

  Read Singer's defense of Second Hand Smoke:
  http://tobaccodocuments.org/ti/TICT0002555-2573.html?patt ...On Similarities between the skin cancer and climate change 'scams' posted 1 year, 7 months ago 173 Responses

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  Dynamic Ice

  Ice sheets are not static places.  Snow builds up but is counterbalanced by the flow of ice to the edge of the island where it either discharged as ice bergs or melts during the summer.  An object placed on top of the sheet will not only be covered in snow, but it will sink into the ice, as the ice oozes toward the sea like silly putty placed on an incline.

  We know the Greenland Ice Sheet is at least 125,000 years old because that is the age of the oldest core.  These are drilled from "domes" that are in the center of the ice sheet(ie not at an incline) and thus hardly move at all.

  FWIW, the planes landed on the south-eastern edge of Greenland, which just happens to be the spot where Greenland is losing the most ice.

  The crash site is shown here:
  http://p38assn.org/images/p38s/gg/greenland.jpg

  And this shows the Greenland mass balance from GRACE
  http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/160991main_mass_trend_ ...On 'Greenland used to be green'--Don't judge a book by its cover, much less a land by its name posted 1 year, 7 months ago 23 Responses