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> > http://www.nature.com/nature/links/040108/040108-1.html

> > Here's the press coverage:
> > Study Warns of Global Warming Extinctions
> > tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040107/ap_on_sc/global_warming_2

> Uh, more like, were embarrassed into resigning, from what I heard.
> Speculation is par for the course, but out-and-out lying and
> misrepresentation, which seems to be what happened in the Climate
> Research article, is rather a bit worse.

I wonder if the editor of Nature will be forced to resign and what
censure the authors of the piece will face for their conduct?

http://www.techcentralstation.com/010904B.html

Here is some effort at falsifiying Mann's hockey stick. Good
scientific process at work regardless of whether it holds up or not.

http://www.techcentralstation.com/121903D.html

Here is some stuff on Lomborg's vindication.

http://www.greenwatch.org/news/news.asp?ID7

How telling the concluding sentence below really is. I didn't really
care much about the debates until I started reading the rabid
commentaries on Lomborg and decided to look for myself.

http://www.techcentralstation.com/122203C.html

History shows that those who persecute heretics beget more heretics.
The Union of Concerned Scientists' clumsy attempt to silence Bjorn
Lomborg is sure to inspire more skeptical environmentalists.

Keep in mind that we're sure to face this type of mentality if SPS
power beaming ever comes to be, or if we increase our launch rate to
orbit.

TangoMan