UQx DENIAL101x 4.3.2.1 Confused decline
Channel: UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Date: 2015-05-19

Peter Jacobs explains climate proxies, which estimate temperatures in the Earth's past. In particular, he looks at the divergence problem, where some tree-ring proxies diverge from recent instrumental measurements. About Denial101x...

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