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The original authors of the famous hockey stick graph have taken another look at the reconstruction of temperatures over the past thousand years. The best summary of the new findings (and how they relate to both the old paper and the controversy) is at Real Climate. More links at the end of this post.

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In his Public Understanding of Science 2000 article ‘Knowledge, Ignorance and Popular Culture’, University of Toronto Professor Sheldon Ungar suggests the reason that public understanding and concern could coalesce around the ozone hole, where it has failed to do so for climate change, was in part due to two things: first, that the ozone hole [...]