Why there is no evidence for a new Maunder Minimum
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Douglas Biesecker, a scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, prepared this Powerpoint presentation to summarize his concerns about new predictions of a deep, protracted lull in solar activity. “I consider the strength of evidence to be anemic and the reasoning to be highly suspect,” he told me for a post on Dot Earth: Would Solar Lull Snuff Climate Action? - http://nyti.ms/il0Wqj
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Make sure to click to the last page, which was the back-cover advertisement that month - for cigarettes.
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"Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria: Where Do Responsibilities End?" Journal of Business Ethics, 2015
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-014-2142-7
Shell's plans for Nigeria (SPDC subsidiary), 2013: http://www.shell.com/media/news-and-media-releases/2013/spdc-sets-out-its-future-intent-for-nigeria.html
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