The Shep Solution = Catastrophic Climate Change

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Beowulf
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Post by Beowulf »

So, the solution is global warming is global thermonuclear war? :wink:

More seriously, it sounds like they're using the model that predicted nuclear winter (which was immensely flawed (neglected oceans, amongst other things)).
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Uraniun235 wrote:That sounds exactly like the assumptions underlying the TTAPS report.
I doubt that's a coincidence, because the researchers mentioned in the article (Richard Turco and Owen Toon) were both members of the infamous TTAPS study (their names are represented by the two T's in the acronym). That alone should cast doubt on the credibility of this new study.
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