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Arctic non-analysis

September 4, 2009 · 53 Comments

Anthony Watts has yet another post suggesting the ludicrous idea that the arctic isn’t really warming. He seems upset about the recent research on arctic temperature, and is all too eager to discredit it.

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September 4, 2009 · 60 Comments

Most people labor under the misconception that if we stop greenhouse gas emissions, levels will soon return to their previous values. Global warming will stop, sea level rise will be averted, things will generally return to “normal” in reasonably short order. In fact this may be at the root of the idea that we’re not facing an urgent situation, that “a choice can always be made to quickly reduce emissions and thereby reverse any harm within a few years or decades.” Only then, so the thinking goes, should we make any real sacrifices, because by stopping emissions those greenhouse-gas levels and global warming will promptly reverse.

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