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Climate change consensus: An open letter from 255 Scientists

Spun: May 10, 2010
Sometimes…often…many of the scientific rebuttals to climate change deniers amount to pep-talking the base (an Americanism for rallying those who are already loyal to the cause). Well, sometimes the base needs a good pep-talk. Like now, when the voices of global warming denialism are being orchestrated into a general anti-science chorus. That’s what 255 members [...]
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Science in cold fusion

Essay: March 23, 2010
On March 23-24, 2010 the American Chemical Society, one of the largest science organizations in the world, hosted a conference called New Energy Technology, during its national meeting. Fifty papers were presented. Another name for the topic of the conference was ‘cold fusion.’ In a way, I’m reluctant to bring up the topic of cold [...]
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