Tag Archives: Phil Jones

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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The phoney scandal that was Climategate

Posted on 31 July 2012 by Peter Boyer

The Climategate affair, now officially at an end, wrongly besmirched the reputations of climate scientists and their work. It may have set back efforts to fight global warming by a decade. [31 July 2012 | Peter Boyer] Let’s pause for … Continue reading →

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