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D-Mac: Ice core dating is conducted using a variety of methods. Sometimes a piece of an organism is trapped within the ice, sometimes when the layers of ice are easily visible and can be counted like the rings on a tree. This good site goes into more detail about how ice cores are dated by the scien...

Good link Blinker. Another link I should have posted first, and one that should have mentioned at the begining of this topic is the homepage for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . This panel was formed in 1988 and consists of over 1000 scientists from around the world that are selective...

All scientific experiments begin with a hypothesis, they are thus extremely important and vital to all of science, that is why I emphasize that it is important to understand what one is before useing it in a careless manner. I'm not making any assumptions about anyones command of the subject matter,...

Wait, out of curiosity, how does making educated guesses about the atmospheric make-up of times buried in the fossil record have much to do with global temperatures and changing weather patterns? Good question. I assume by educated guess, you mean a hypothesis. Although I realize that most people w...

I'll leave you to read the many reports and charts. Global Warming remains a mere hypothesis with no evidence to support that it is occurring; and a mountain of evidence to disprove it. Global Warming is an just another urban legend Two things I want to respond to here as a scientist. 1. skepticism...

Calus puts badsushi on the planet dune about four thousand years before it is colonized. Oh yeah? Well, I put you on planet Gorblach, which is pretty much just like Earth except it has an extra moon and rent is slightly more expensive on account of a recent influx of immigrants from the neighboring...

hey dude, nice hat

Allo fellow Real Lifers. I am Matthew the Charlatan from Bad Sushi and I am here to rock! Woooooo! *cough* Allright, here's my deal: I'm a college survivor who has spent the past couple years in the real world passing himself off as a wetland ecologist for an environmental consulting firm in Florida...