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The 'mini ice age' hoopla is a giant failure of science communication

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageA gigantic sunspot almost 130,000 km across captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory on October 23, 2014.NASA/SDO

This month there’s been a hoopla about a mini ice age, and unfortunately it tells us more about failures of science communication than the climate. Such failures can maintain the illusion of doubt and uncertainty, even...

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