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Monday, June 30, 2008 12:00 AM

Anti-science conservatives must be stopped

Americans must not allow global warming deniers to block the policies needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Our future is at stake.

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  • Wednesday, July 2, 2008 03:12 PM

    manacker: You Are Either Illiterate Or A Liar (minor, unimportant correction)

    I wrote:

    The other article you attributed to "Willson" - "Willson (update – 2007)"

    Is from a different, guy, whose name is actually "Wilson".

    That page link links to another page:

    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_030320.html

    which establishes the author is in fact the same "Willson" as the 2003 study. (The previous page spelled his name incorrectly as "Wilson".)

    "And that link:

    http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/11/831692-total-solar-irradiance-tsi-variation-possible-contribution-to-climate-change

    says no such thing with respect to a 50% contribtution either."

    That part - which is to say, the important part - still stands, including with respect to the more detailed space.com link from that page.

    Which is to say:

    Nowhere in these links does Willson state - or even suggest under an extreme scenario - that, per manacker's assertion, solar radiation does or could account for a 50% contribution to global warming.

    You are either illiterate or a liar, manacker. Or both.

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