Pluto update
Aug. 23rd, 2006 12:22 pm
According to the latest news it looks like Pluto may be denied planet status after all. Rah!
One of these things is not like the others:

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There is no proof that humans are affecting global climate. The IPCC 2001 report endorses this view. It states: "The fact that the global mean temperature has increased since the late 19th century, and that other trends have been observed, does not necessarily mean that an anthropogenic [human-induced] effect on the climate system has been identified. Climate has always varied on all time-scales, so the observed change may be natural."This is an astonishing piece of intellectual dishonesty. If you read the quote in context (last three paragraphs), you will quickly see that the report does not endorse the view that de Freitas is trying to attribute to it, and no-one who read it could think that it did. As you can see from the linked text, what they're saying paraphrases to something like "Just because temperature has changed doesn't prove that it's human-induced. To make a case that it's human-induced we need evidence X Y and Z, which we present here." And the global warming skeptics are quoting just the first half, and entirely reversing the meaning.