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Atmosphere reveals that we’re living a lie

Posted on 4 July 2017 by Peter Boyer

Our governments have been cooking the carbon accounting books. It’s past time they stopped. There are many measures of our performance in reducing carbon emissions, but only one that counts. As Bill Clinton might have said, it’s the atmosphere, stupid! … Continue reading →

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Marcott: the shape of abrupt climate change

Posted on 19 March 2013 by Peter Boyer

The most disturbing message out of a new temperature study going back 11.3 millennia is the speed and scale of modern warming compared with warming earlier in the Holocene. Ten thousand years ago, the last of the woolly mammoths were taking … Continue reading →

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