climate science

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  6-18-15
  

  Holy Ignorance

  by Garry Wills

  If Catholic conservatives like Rick Santorum deny climate change in the name of holiness, can Pope Francis persuade them with his own appeal to holy values in creation? I doubt it.

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• 6-19-15
  

  Could Scientists Be Wrong About Global Warming?

  by Dr. James Powell

  These 4 reasons show why it’s very unlikely.

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• 6-16-15
  

  The Hoax of Climate Denial

  by Naomi Oreskes

  Why “Politically Motivated” Science Is Good Science

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-15-15
  

  Naomi Oreskes, a Lightning Rod in a Changing Climate

  Dr. Oreskes is fast becoming one of the biggest names in climate science by using historical scholarship to take on denialists.

• SOURCE: ScienceDaily
  1-30-13
  

  Study rebuts hypothesis that comets destroyed Clovis culture

  Jan. 30, 2013 — Rebutting a speculative hypothesis that comet explosions changed Earth's climate sufficiently to end the Clovis culture in North America about 13,000 years ago, Sandia lead author Mark Boslough and researchers from 14 academic institutions assert that other explanations must be found for the apparent disappearance."There's no plausible mechanism to get airbursts over an entire continent," said Boslough, a physicist. "For this and other reasons, we conclude that the impact hypothesis is, unfortunately, bogus."In a December 2012 American Geophysical Union monograph, first available in January, the researchers point out that no appropriately sized impact craters from that time period have been discovered, nor have any unambiguously "shocked" materials been found....