It has been corroborated by a metric shitload of papers.

So, to the best of our knowledge, it is quite correct.

Which periods are these?

There have been no periods of time for which the Proxies from MBH 1998 were available that had 20 times as much CO2.

Your claim is that not a pollutant because we create it by breathing?

I don't follow that logic. What is it about breathing that requires the things created by it not to be pollutants? No, it wasn't. It was essentially asking for a cap on greenhouse emissions.

If the work is corroborated, then the rise that he showed is quite correct.

Your claims of screwy statistical methods and selective sampling are therefore complete bollocks too.

You'd hope this was true, but I see the anti-vax movement and religious extremism both gaining momentum. And consumer protection against "alternative medicine" as we're forced to call heath fraud nowadays, was much stronger in the 40s.

I hope and trust that Mann is right in this case, but the denialist movement has fucked us all.

You think Fox news is crap only if you're on the left of politics?

The thing you seem to have failed to grasp is "Truth is objective."

Ahh, the anti-science movement calling the pro-scientific movement a "religion".

This is one of the lies that the anti-science's PR movement pays people to tell. If you have a fault, it is a good idea to accuse the other side of that fault so that the perception develops that both sides are as bad as each other.

How's that working out for you with the audience of http://science.slashdot.org/ ?

That's because it doesn't work on people who are actually following what's going on.

Only about 20% of scholarly papers that are cutting edge science are still corroborated 5 years later.

One example of research that has been particularly well corroborated by later papers is the temperature reconstructions by Mann, Bradley and Hughes.

There is no higher standard of affirmation than reproduction by independent lines of evidence.

How can this possibly be fraud?

Neither is he self-promoting. He is science promoting. That is to be admired. Even if you're a Bush or Murdoch, so that you've an interest in not promoting it.

Apparently the collision has become more serious than when I was at school, and now it's not going to pass through, but whack together, merging the super-massive black holes into a doubly super-massive black hole.

So get your popcorn ready, it's going to be a show.

We've got a galaxy passing through in about 4 billion years.

So if you're up to star hopping, it'll be a good opportunity to colonize a whole stack of systems getting flung in a whole stack of directions ... assuming we're not sterilized by Gamma Ray Bursts from Andromeda.

That would have gutted me when I was at uni.

Really?

It looks from the aerial photography you link to that they just cut tracks to each turbine.

I look at it from price per unit, insulation from oscillating fuel prices, greenhouse emissions, and production of harmful waste.

It's not as funny as you seem to think.

Men also would rather shock themselves than not shock themselves, if there's nothing else to do for 15 minutes.