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Glacier retreat caused by soot?

New research from NASA (not sure if it’s peer reviewed, but it seems likely) suggests that soot is a major contributor to the retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas. A quick glance at William Lau’s webpage shows that dust is having several effects, directly on sunlight in the atmosphere, by darkening snow and allowing it [...]

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Does it matter?

Originally published at http://www.houlihane.co.uk/blog
First, to save the people at RealClimate (climate propaganda by the people who deny that there is any thing to worry about in the stolen private emails, which incidentally discuss the use of that very website to discredit alternative opinion) the trouble, here is some background on me and what some people [...]

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Presentation of data in IPPC TAR

Originally posted at http://www.houlihane.co.uk/blog.
Steve McIntyre has a detailed analysis of what has been described in the recent news as ‘a trick‘ to present temperature data in a certain way. His analysis is probably too detailed for many people to understand, so I have tried to provide a simple synopsys.
In 1999  the IPCC was preparing it’s [...]

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