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Is Climate Change Real? Are Economic Sacrifices Needed to Stop It?

June 15, 2020

One of my motivations for writing my latest book, Weathering Climate Change, came from the repeated questions I heard at my outreach events and...

by Hugh Ross Read

How Did Earth Get Its Long-Standing Stable Climate?

December 10, 2018

In last week’s blog1 I described how a careful reconstruction of temperature proxies at sites all over the world revealed that the climate stability...

by Hugh Ross Read

Miracles of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, Part 2

October 8, 2018

In part 1 of this three-part series, I wrote about how 800,000 years ago, a miraculous transition from a 41,000-year to an approximately 100,000-year...

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by Hugh Ross Read