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Climate Change deniers quotemine Syracuse professor Apr 14th 2012, 12:11 Interesting to see this go local and I am glad that SU jumped right in in calling the BS out. Quote: Is this finally proof we're NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study... Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times areas as far apart as Europe and Antarctica both warmed up. It then cooled down naturally and there was even a 'mini ice age'. A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that the 'Medieval Warm Period' approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn't just confined to Europe. In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...emissions.html Quote: Another Researcher Falls Victim to the Echo Chamber of Climate Change Denial An assistant professor of geochemistry at Syracuse University is the latest victim of the echo chamber of climate change denial which is used to mislead the public about the results of academic research. On 21 March, Syracuse University issued a media release to draw attention to a new paper by Dr Zunli Lu and co-authors, which was published online in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters on 25 February. The paper, 'An ikaite record of late Holocene climate at the Antarctic Peninsula', described the discovery of crystals of a rare mineral form of calcium carbonate, which decomposes at temperatures above 4°C, in sediments from a drilling site. By dating the occurrence of ikaite in the drilling core, the authors concluded that it "qualitatively supports that both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age extended to the Antarctic Peninsula". http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/bob-...b_1396044.html Quote: SU professor discovers a potential new way to study climate, and finds himself in the storm over global warming Within a matter of days, Lu found himself being hailed by climate change skeptics across the world as the scientist who had proved their case — that man-made global warming is a myth. Only one problem: Lu says the skeptics' conclusion wasn't true. "The article was a 100 percent surprise," Lu wrote Tuesday in an email, about a report in Britain's Daily Mail tabloid, which announced that his research debunked the notion that global warming stems from man's burning of fossil fuels. Not only was Lu surprised, he grew distressed over what he views as misrepresentations of his work by media outlets with an anti-global warming agenda. Last week, he took his complaints public, issuing a statement on SU's College of Arts and Sciences web page. "It is unfortunate that my research. .. has been misinterpreted by a number of media outlets," Lu wrote. "Our study does not question the well-established anthropogenic warming trend." ("Anthopogenic" means "man-made.") http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.s...s_potenti.html

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