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	<description>scientia vincere tenebras</description>
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		<title>WHRC debuts detailed maps of forest canopy height and carbon stock for the conterminous US</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/04/25/whrc-debuts-detailed-maps-of-forest-canopy-height-and-carbon-stock-for-the-conterminous-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/04/25/whrc-debuts-detailed-maps-of-forest-canopy-height-and-carbon-stock-for-the-conterminous-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[http://bit.ly/gnwFRM]]></description>
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		<title>Can Science and Religion Get Along?</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/03/08/can-science-and-religion-get-along-sciencenow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/03/08/can-science-and-religion-get-along-sciencenow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science versus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;WASHINGTON, D.C.—Can pastoral warnings of fire and brimstone be redirected toward a heating planet in the interest of preserving God&#8217;s creation? Or are those who build creation museums hopeless ideologues whose Stone Age ideas should be buried once and for all? &#8220;Those were among the topics of discussion at a seminar here yesterday at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA backs burning food for fuel</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/01/22/epa-backs-burning-food-for-fuel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/01/22/epa-backs-burning-food-for-fuel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Over the objections of oil refiners and automakers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday endorsed the use of more ethanol-blended fuel in most passenger cars. The EPA concluded it is safe to use fuels made with up to 15 percent ethanol in cars, SUVs and light-duty trucks manufactured between 2001 and 2006. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worldwide extreme weather</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/01/22/worldwide-extreme-weather/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/01/22/worldwide-extreme-weather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[severe storms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temperature increase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — In the past year, every continent except Antarctica has seen record-breaking floods. Rains submerged one-fifth of Pakistan, a thousand-year deluge swamped Nashville and storms just north of Rio caused the deadliest landslides Brazil has ever seen. Southern France and northern Australia had floods, too. Sri Lanka, South Africa, the list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe begins to run short of water</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/01/22/europe-begins-to-run-short-of-water/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/01/22/europe-begins-to-run-short-of-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ground water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PRAGUE, Jan 22, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Half of the Czech Republic’s population could face water shortages because of climate change, a top climate change expert has warned. The country has become one of the driest in the EU, according to local media, and climatologists say the land, and crucial underground water supplies, are drying up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Load &#8216;n Lock Language</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/01/12/load-n-lock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2011/01/12/load-n-lock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appeal to emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood libel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logical fallacies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violent language]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Blood libel, eh? Shows what happens to a person who owns a Thesaurus to look up cool sounding words, but neglects to look them up in a dictionary (or in this case even an encyclopedia). Does the speaker know what a blood libel is? Which is more chilling? ignorance? Or whatever the option is? I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can &#8220;Supernatural&#8221; phenomena be scientifically tested?</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/11/02/can-supernatural-phenomena-be-scientifically-tested/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/11/02/can-supernatural-phenomena-be-scientifically-tested/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science versus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution and religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion and science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science and religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supernatural]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article on the Cosmic Variance blog has a very nice description of how science might go about responding to claims of the supernatural. This article adds, significantly, I believe, to the discussion of the relationship between religion and science. Cosmic Variance, 11/10/2010. http://bit.ly/dkhqKG]]></description>
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		<title>Death of Aspens Caused by  Climate Variations</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/10/19/death-of-aspens-caused-by-climate-variations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/10/19/death-of-aspens-caused-by-climate-variations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aspens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GUNNISON, Colo. — Aspen trees, with their quivering, delicate foliage and the warm glow of color they spread across the high country of the Rocky Mountains this time of year, have an emotional appeal that their stolid, prickly evergreen cousins do not. So tree lovers and scientists alike felt the impact when the aspen in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SnowGoer magazine weighs in on global warming</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/09/27/snowgoer-magazine-weighs-in-on-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/09/27/snowgoer-magazine-weighs-in-on-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snowmobiles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The November 2000 edition of the popular snowmobilers&#8217; magazine, SnowGoer, featured an article by Phil Michelson, a technical writer for the magazine, about global warming. Because I found it extraordinary I am reproducing the article in its entirety below. I have numbered the paragraphs for ease of reference in the Comments, where I will analyze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are the Science Deniers?</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/09/07/who-are-the-science-deniers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/09/07/who-are-the-science-deniers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science versus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate skeptic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skeptic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully without sounding angry, I would like to briefly explore a rough categorization of people who deny either Darwin, Einstein, or global warming. It appears that they disbelieve for similar reasons, and can be divided into three rough groups. 1) They don&#8217;t understand the science or they are simply not interested enough to think about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voltaire on Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/27/voltaire-on-religion-in-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/27/voltaire-on-religion-in-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government and]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On reading what our founding fathers thought on the subject of religion and government, one is constantly finding references to the great rational and &#8220;Enlightenment&#8221; philosophers and thinkers. One of the favorites is Voltaire, and their favorite work by Voltaire seems to have been his Philosophical Dictionary ( Downloadable for free, in English, from Project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Constitution vs Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/27/the-constitution-vs-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/27/the-constitution-vs-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[government and]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had reason to read what John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and others wrote about freedom of (from) religion. (My reading included the obvious Constitution of the United States, Constitution of Virginia, and the Constitution of New York, for a few examples. Sources of much of their thought on the subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biological Diversity Correlates with Ecological Opportunity: Surprised?</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/26/biological-diversity-correlates-with-ecological-opportunity-surprised/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/26/biological-diversity-correlates-with-ecological-opportunity-surprised/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolutionary biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Coyne, on his Why Evolution is True site has a quick analysis of a new paper that is turning up all over the place under a headline that is some variant of Darwin Was Wrong, when it fact, the article doesn&#8217;t seem to prove anything of the kind. Read a reasonable and rational review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Accommodation: Heidegger&#8217;s cats?</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/25/religious-accommodation-heideggers-cats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/25/religious-accommodation-heideggers-cats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Science (or statistics?) meets religion half way.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I [Had] A Dream&#8221;: Religion and Social Justice</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/25/i-had-a-dream-religion-and-social-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/25/i-had-a-dream-religion-and-social-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Martin Luther King III responds to Beck&#8217;s Aug. 28 rally: My father &#8220;wholeheartedly embrace[d] the &#8216;social gospel&#8217;&#8221; In an August 25 Washington Post op-ed, Martin Luther King III discussed Glenn Beck&#8217;s &#8220;Restoring Honor&#8221; rally planned to take place on the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Lulther King Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;I Have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government vs Islam: Treaty of Tripoli</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/24/government-vs-islam-treaty-of-tripoli/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/24/government-vs-islam-treaty-of-tripoli/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1797 the US Senate unanimously approved (only the third unanimous vote out of 339), a treaty with the Barbary pirate state (Treaty of Tripoli). The Treaty was signed by President John Adams and Sec. of State Timothy Pickering. It was published in the Philadelphia Gazette and in two New York papers, and never raised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men are not animals</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/10/men-are-not-animals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/08/10/men-are-not-animals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This parody of creationist arguments is so close to the truth it is painful to watch!]]></description>
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		<title>Critique of Cal Thomas&#8217; article &#8220;More Abandon Climate &#8216;Myth&#8217;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/06/09/critique-of-cal-thomas-article-more-abandon-climate-myth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/06/09/critique-of-cal-thomas-article-more-abandon-climate-myth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cal Thomas, in his syndicated column, rolled-out, or at least mentioned in passing, several of the old tried-and-true climate denier stories, apparently unaware or unconcerned that they have all been refuted. But, worse than that, perhaps, is that his article is misleading and not entirely honest. He opens by linking the “myth” of climate change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cal Thomas: Sinking &#8216;climate change&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/06/08/cal-thomas-sinking-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Washington Examiner, June 3, 2010) Original title: &#8220;More Abandon Climate &#8216;Myth&#8217;&#8221; Three modern myths have been sold to the American people: the promise of a transparent administration (President Obama); the promise of a more ethical Congress (Speaker Pelosi); and the myth of &#8220;global warming,&#8221; or climate change. The first two are daily proving suspect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon-Friendly Beef? Look to Africa, Experts Say</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/06/07/carbon-friendly-beef-look-to-africa-experts-say/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/06/07/carbon-friendly-beef-look-to-africa-experts-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beef cattle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Solve Climate, June 7, 2010) Studies in Africa reveal that raising livestock through pastoralism is &#8216;far more&#8217; ecological than crop production In 2006, a landmark report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) found that livestock production contributes 18 percent to global carbon dioxide emissions — more than automobiles. Since then, meat production has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monckton Chronicles Part III – Acid Reflux?</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/06/07/monckton-chronicles-part-iii-%e2%80%93-acid-reflux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/06/07/monckton-chronicles-part-iii-%e2%80%93-acid-reflux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate skeptic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Skeptical Science, June 7, 2010) Guest post by John Abraham This time, we are turning our attention to a problem that is rapidly gaining attention in the public arena. That problem, commonly termed “ocean acidification” refers to the lowering of the ocean’s pH by the dissolution of carbon dioxide in seawater. It should be noted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic Sea Ice at Lowest Point in Thousands of Years</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/06/05/arctic-sea-ice-at-lowest-point-in-thousands-of-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/06/05/arctic-sea-ice-at-lowest-point-in-thousands-of-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Live Science, June 4, 12010) By Andrea Thompson posted: 04 June 2010 09:10 am ET he shrinking amount of sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean today is the smallest it has been in the last few thousand years, a new study suggests. The sea ice that normally covers huge swaths of the Arctic Ocean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suminia: Life in the Trees 260 Million Years Ago</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/05/29/suminia-life-in-the-trees-260-million-years-ago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/05/29/suminia-life-in-the-trees-260-million-years-ago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 14:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primate Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Laelaps, May 28, 2010) When I hear the phrase &#8220;early human relative&#8221; I cannot help but think of an ape-like creature. Something like Sahelanthropus fits the bill nicely &#8211; it may not be a hominin but it is still a close relative from around the time that the first hominins evolved. That is why I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ocean heat content increases update</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/05/29/ocean-heat-content-increases-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/05/29/ocean-heat-content-increases-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 14:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(RealClimate, May 29, 2010) There is a new paper in Nature this week on recent trends in ocean heat content from a large group of oceanographers led by John Lyman at PMEL. Their target is the uncertainty surrounding the various efforts to create a homogenised ocean heat content data set that deals appropriately with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On attribution</title>
		<link>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/05/29/on-attribution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/2010/05/29/on-attribution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 13:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimalakirti</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.peavler.org/arguendo/?p=2032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(RealClimate, May 29,2010) How do we know what caused climate to change – or even if anything did? This is a central question with respect to recent temperature trends, but of course it is much more general and applies to a whole range of climate changes over all time scales. Judging from comments we receive [...]]]></description>
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