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Old 03-29-2007, 15:14 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ArmchairGeneral View Post
Wow. That's what you might call a "Duh" moment. That's so stupid sounding it makes me wonder how accurate it is. One would have to be incredibly idiotic/biased to ignore the possibility that the trees are responding to greater CO2 availability. That's grade school science. If true, wow...I mean, just, WOW.
Exactly. The skeptics realized that Mann used thicker tree rings as an indication for higher temperature when it clearly meant higher CO2 content. He fudged the data to produce the results he wanted.
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