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“My research colleagues and I found that from 1986 to 2000, one small, ice-free area of the Antarctic mainland had actually cooled. Our report . . . found that, from 1966 to 2000, more of the continent [58 percent] had cooled than had warmed. Our summary statement pointed out how the cooling trend posed challenges to models of Antarctic climate and ecosystem change.”
This patient iterative process is too slow for the mainstream media, and too impartial to suit climate-change denialists. Writes Doran, “Our results have been misused as ‘evidence’ against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel ‘State of Fear’ and by Ann Coulter in her latest book, ‘Godless: The Church of Liberalism.’”
Doran includes a fuller version of his Times op-ed and additional materials at his UIC web site. One of his side comments pretty much summarizes the whole sorry business:
