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A new Olympic record for retraction of a denier talking point

Posted on August 25, 2008

The gold medal goes to Steven Goddard of The Register. On Friday August 15, he published a scathing article, Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered: There's something rotten north of Denmark attacking the National Snow and Ice Data Center plot of Arctic Sea Ice Extent (below) that I and pretty much everyone else on the planet use.Based on some (mis)analysis too obscure for mortal men and women to follow, he concluded The problem is that this graph does not appear to be correct :The Arctic did not experience the meltdowns forecast by NSIDC and the Norwegian Polar Year Secretariat. ...

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