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April 24, 2007

An Unrepentant Prognosticator

Climatologist George Kukla still believes an ice age is likely.

Mari Krueger

Now that Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has won an Oscar and global warming has become a household concern, it's easy to forget that just 30 years ago, people were worried about the exact opposite happening. In 1975, Newsweek ran an article entitled "The Cooling World" [PDF] that foretold the decimation of agricultural productivity based on a dramatic decrease in the Earth's temperature.







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- posted on Apr 07, 11
Pierre Lambert

George Kukla has a habit of manipulating data. He would "kill his mother" in order to produce data that would fit his hypotheses...
At best fast food science, at worse charlatanism!

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