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19 November 2009
Yet Another Independent Confirmation of Warming
In Science, one piece of data, even if it’s conclusive is never the whole story. A consensus is not likely unless there are multiple independent sets of data that all point to the same thing. The age of the Earth is a good example. There are dozens of independent methods of estimating the age of our small spinning fragment of solar driftwood. (I stole that line from Orson Welles by …