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Old 10-19-2009
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Re: The global wealth redistributive politics of AGW

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Originally Posted by Andrewl View Post
The radiative effects of the change in solar input vs the radiative effects of CO2 are well known and have been measured and observed. The solar/orbital effects are not enough to melt the glaciers in the northern hemisphere, only the positive feedback of GHG and albedo effect are enough to account for the difference.

Whether you buy it or not is irrelevant. Perhaps if you did your own research testing your hypothesis and published your results in a peer reviewed journal that challenged this consensus your hypothesis would be more credible.

Andrew
You think issues like creating a hockey stick with made up bogus statistics (Mann), cherry picking trees to create a hockey stick (Briffa), and refusing to release data, methods, and code to independent researchers is "credible?" It's not and it breeds distrust and suspicion.

Kramer
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