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From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:33:33 -0400
Unfortunately, it doesn't pass the "smell test" on methods, temperature, 
or, especially, nutrients.
<http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/31/walking-the-plank-ton/#more-22836>
or see Steve Short's comment at Nature's page
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7306/abs/nature09268.html>

and, of course, like other good climate related studies they haven't 
released their code or the details of their data so that the study can 
be validated as in other sciences.  But like the very best of climate 
studies it certainly does rise to the politically scary level as Steven 
Schneider taught them to do:
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On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific 
method. … On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings 
as well. … To avert the risk (of potentially disastrous climate change) 
we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public 
imagination. That of course means getting loads of media coverage. So we 
have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic 
statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. …Each of us 
has to decide what the right balance is between being effective, and 
being honest.

--Stephen H. Schneider, author of the book Global Warming (Sierra Club), 
in an interview in Discover Magazine, October 1989.
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Chuck Norcutt


Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ... as always, humankind will adapt
> 
> "Always" is such a long time.
> 
> Are you referring to the "always" of the past couple hundred years of  
> industrialization, or the "always" of the past couple tens of  
> thousands of years of human agriculture, or the "always" of the past  
> couple hundred thousand years of modern homo sapiens, or the "always"  
> of the couple hundred million years of the cockroach?
> 
> Things could turn on a dime. The base of the global food chain  
> (phytoplankton) has declined by 40% since we've started pumping CO2  
> into the air. Humans may well be resilient, but last I checked, we  
> still need to eat.
>       http://lmgtfy.com/?q=phytoplankton+decline
> 
> ----------------
> I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. -- Thomas  
> Alva Edison
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
> 
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