A polar researcher sets the record straight - it's about the SCIENCE, stupid...!

peter doran offers a fascinating glimpse into how real, hard, rigorous science can be twisted to suit ideological purposes and political agendas... basically what he has written is a case study of the extent to which bushco and its book-burning supporters have gone in pursuit of an ideology not based in reality...

Our study did find that 58 percent of Antarctica cooled from 1966 to 2000. But during that period, the rest of the continent was warming. And climate models created since our paper was published have suggested a link between the lack of significant warming in Antarctica and the ozone hole over that continent. These models, conspicuously missing from the warming-skeptic literature, suggest that as the ozone hole heals — thanks to worldwide bans on ozone-destroying chemicals — all of Antarctica is likely to warm with the rest of the planet. An inconvenient truth?

Also missing from the skeptics’ arguments is the debate over our conclusions. Another group of researchers who took a different approach found no clear cooling trend in Antarctica. We still stand by our results for the period we analyzed, but unbiased reporting would acknowledge differences of scientific opinion.

The disappointing thing is that we are even debating the direction of climate change on this globally important continent. And it may not end until we have more weather stations on Antarctica and longer-term data that demonstrate a clear trend.

In the meantime, I would like to remove my name from the list of scientists who dispute global warming. I know my coauthors would as well.

Peter Doran is an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

in the article, he takes jabs at ann coulter and michael crichton, who, as seems to be a habit with the wingers, misquoted and misrepresented doran's work... it's worth reading...

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