Monday, January 14, 2013

The Honest Broker Celebrates

Ethon came flying in with a couple of paragraphs that he found while chewing on his favorite liver.  Unfortunately, he had gummed up the rest of the article so the Bunnies will have to read the rest at Maribo

Suspicions of doping cost climate extremes chance at fame

NEW YORK (CP) - At an annual meeting held last week, scientists chose not to induct two of the top events in climate history into the Hall of Fame due to suspicions of doping. The U.S. weather of 2012 and the Arctic sea ice decline, which each broke numerous climate records during their long, illustrious careers, fell well short in the voting among eligible scientists.


Courtesy: UCAR
The strong consensus signifies an important change in the willingness of the scientific community to attribute individual climate achievements to drug use. It leaves behind the controversial election of other climate events suspected of doping, including the Russian Heat Wave and Pakistani floods of 2010. . .