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Do you feel lucky?

by Gareth May 30, 2009

Once again, Ian Wishart is working himself up into a fine frenzy over at his blog, responding to a perceptive post by Bomber Bradbury at Tumeke! In the comments there he claimed to have “pointed out numerous mistakes in Gareth’s snide and out of context ‘review’”, and — funnily enough — I didn’t feel inclined [...]

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The Long Thaw

by Bryan Walker January 24, 2009

The legacy of our release of fossil fuel CO2 to the atmosphere will be long-lasting. It will affect the Earth’s climate for millenia. We are becoming players in geologic time. That is the conclusion that climatologist David Archer shares with a general audience in his newly published book The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing [...]

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Plows, Plagues and Petroleum

by Bryan Walker December 28, 2008

William Ruddiman’s book Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate has attracted a good deal of interest in the climate history world since it was published in 2005. His major thesis is that even before the industrial revolution, human activity over a period of 8000 years was responsible for a significant rise [...]

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