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THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Newsflash: "Pretty much whatever we do, life on Earth will carry on, just as it did for the previous 3.5 billion years or so"

Life arose on Earth over three and a half billion years ago and it would appear that despite planetary scale calamities such as the impacts of massive meteorites, runaway climate change and increases in brightness of the Sun, it has continued to grow, reproduce and evolve ever since.

Video: Nobel Economist says skeptics are deniers like Holocaust-denier Ahmadinejad | JunkScience.com

Also of note from Schelling:

Global warming is worse than an Iranian nuclear bomb
The president will soon have to take a boat from the White House to go to Capitol Hill

Sea Ice News | Real Science

Arctic ice area is normal. Antarctic ice area is above normal. Temperatures in the Arctic have been below normal. Malsowski and Gore were wrong. Serreze is breathtakingly ignorant.

Time to stop scaring kiddies for dollars.

Signs that Davis Strait polar bears are at carrying capacity | polarbearscience

when they finally present the data, biologists have to admit that they cannot actually tell the difference between a polar bear population that is so large that it can no longer increase and one that is suffering a population decline because of reduced sea ice.

Seeking The Correct Level Of CO2 | Real Science

If CO2 molecules are too abundant, they get angry and attack poor women and children. On the other hand, too few CO2 molecules cause Earth to turn into a giant snowball. We need to give scientists lots and lots of money to determine how much CO2 is just right.