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  • Global Warming Bombshell: A prime piece of evidence ... turns out to be artifact of poor math

    10/15/2004 12:52:24 AM PDT · by Steve Schulin · 44 replies · 3,814+ views
    Technology Review ^ | October 15, 2004 | Richard Muller
    Global Warming Bombshell: A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics. by Richard Muller (prof physics - University of California, Berkeley) Progress in science is sometimes made by great discoveries. But science also advances when we learn that something we believed to be true isn’t. When solving a jigsaw puzzle, the solution can sometimes be stymied by the fact that a wrong piece has been wedged in a key place. In the scientific and political debate over global warming, the latest wrong piece may be the “hockey stick,” the...