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>FYI,
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>The two research papers and a summary perspective on the work are
>published in the current issue of Science:
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>Science 25 November 2005:
>Vol. 310. no. 5752, pp. 1285 - 1287
>DOI: 10.1126/science.1121535
>
>Perspectives
>ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
>Tiny Bubbles Tell All
>Edward J. Brook
>
>Our knowledge of long-term human effects on greenhouse gas levels in
>the atmosphere comes from air trapped in ice cores taken from polar ice
>sheets. These ice core samples allow researchers to place modern
>changes in the context of natural variations over hundreds of thousands
>of years. In his Perspective, Brook discusses results reported in the
>same issue by Siegenthaler et al. and by Spahni et al. based on new
>samples obtained by the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
>(EPICA). The new long records of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous
>oxide from EPICA extend the window on greenhouse gas levels to 650,000
>years. The results confirm that the modern atmosphere is highly
>anomalous and reinforce the view that greenhouse gases and climate are
>intimately related.
>
>The author is in the Department of Geosciences, Oregon State
>University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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>-Kevin
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>On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:09 PM, jason jay stevens wrote:
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>> Friday's Los Angeles Times features an article about a sample of
>> Antarctic ice which strengthens the argument that recent global
>> warming is partially the result of human activity, about which Penn
>> State geophysicist is quoted, "This is saying, 'Yeah, we had it
>> right.' We can pound on the table harder and say, 'This is real.' "
>>
>> --------------------
>> Core Evidence That Humans Affect Climate Change
>> --------------------
>>
>> Ice drilled in Antarctica offers the fullest record of glacial cycles
>> and greenhouse gas levels.
>>
>> By Usha Lee McFarling
>> Times Staff Writer
>>
>> November 25 2005
>>
>> An ice core about two miles long — the oldest frozen sample ever
>> drilled from the underbelly of Antarctica — shows that at no
>> time in the last 650,000 years have levels of the greenhouse gases
>> carbon dioxide and methane been as high as they are today.
>>
>> The complete article can be viewed at:
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-na-ice25nov25,0,5657925.story?
>> coll=la-story-footer
>>
>> Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com
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>>
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>> On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Eric Siegel (optonline) wrote:
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>>> I heard a surprising skeptical interview with a scientist named S.
>>> Fred Singer on BBC news.  He was excoriating (if thats the word I
>>> want) the montreal and preceding kyoto climate change conventions,
>>> saying that they are worse than a waste of time and that human
>>> activity should not change to forestall global warming.  Google shows
>>> he is a reputable if controversial scientist.    My first instinct
>>> was to dismiss his arguments as oil-company sponsored.  But it is
>>> pretty convincing, here's a link to an extensive interview published
>>> by pbs.
>>>
>>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/singer.html
>>>
>>> Eric Siegel
>>> Executive VP
>>>    Programs and Planning
>>> NY Hall of Science
>>> 47-01 111th Street
>>> Queens, NY 11368
>>> www.nyscience.org
>>
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