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posted by on Monday April 10 2017, @04:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the goldilocks-is-a-moving-target dept.

University of Southampton (via Science Daily) (archived copy that may be more readable) reports on work published in Nature Communications (open access; doi:10.1038/ncomms14845). Scientists combined previously published data regarding atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past ~420 million years with an estimate of solar irradiance based on previous work. One of the authors told the University of Southampton:

Our new CO2 compilation appears on average to have gradually declined over time by about 3-4 ppm per million years. This may not sound like much, but it is actually just about enough to cancel out the warming effect caused by the sun brightening through time, so in the long-term it appears the net effect of both was pretty much constant on average.

additional coverage:
Climate Central

related story:
Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun'

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Re:Not entirely wrong by Anonymous Coward


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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:06AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:06AM (#492172) Journal

    Ah, well, Revelations is all Code. The Number of the Beast, that is the 6-6-6 that is the barrier values on all the barcodes you run across everyday in the supply chain. But the Beast itself? Who do you think that is? And even more so, there is reference to the "Whore of Babylon", which I can only interepret as the Wall Street Strain of "The Repubulican Party", the GOP, which when you add the Talmudic numeric values of each of those letters . . . . . OK, you got me. One of my hobbies is to occasionally to go Glenn Beck/Alex Jones, but from the side of Social Justice and right and good. Leads me to sometimes get carried away. Sorry. Won't happen again.

    And then the Angel opened the Seventh Seal, and inside was Ted Cruz. And Lies and Vomit proceeded forth from him, and to his right was the Paul called Rand, and to his left was the O'Connell of the Senate, and they were most foul. And a Mighty trumpet sounded forth, to announce the nuclear option, and the attack of the Donald upon the forces of Ma-Gog, and their not so much perishing in the fury of his tweets. And behold, Republicans renounced their evil ways, and their plutitrude, and sought refuge with the Most High. And thus it came to pass, in spite of Sessions, that pot was legalized, and all these hallucinations cause by very bad acid, ceased to exist. Ramen.

    Book of Re-Revelations, revised for a Modern World, Non-king James, or "just Jim" edition.

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