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bold'><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/climate-myths/">http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/climate-myths/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<h1><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Climate
Myths<i><font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon;font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=subhead><i><font size=3 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:maroon;font-style:italic'>Responses to Andrew
Bolt’s Article,“10 climate myths”<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=byline><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>by Andrew Glikson / April 30th, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Responses
to Andrew Bolt’s article, “<a
href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_the_10_warming_myths/?source=cmailer">10
climate myths</a>” (Herald Sun, 29-4-09)</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Andrew
Bolt today presented climate change “myths”. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here is
my response to each. Essentially, the “skeptics” are searching for
short annual or biannual changes, rather than looking at decade-scale trends.
Failing to understand that science is a self-correcting discipline, they hope
that, if and when they find minor errors or uncertainties (such as always
exist) the entire scientific edifice behind the idea of climate change will
collapse.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>By the
fact that the so-called “climate change skeptics” are attempting to
refute every single direct observation and measurement in nature, as well as
the basic physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, indeed climate science as a
discipline, they reveal a resistance to the scientific method as such.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
1 — THE WORLD IS WARMING</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Wrong. It is true the world did warm between 1975 and 1998, but even Professor
David Karoly, one of our leading alarmists, admitted this week
“temperatures have dropped” since –“both in surface
temperatures and in atmospheric temperatures measured from satellites”.
In fact, the fall in temperatures from just 2002 has already wiped out a
quarter of the warming our planet experienced last century. (Check data from <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
Hadley Centre, NASA’s Aqua satellite and the US National Climatic Data
Center.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some
experts, such as Karoly, claim this proves nothing and the world will soon
start warming again. Others, such as Professor Ian Plimer of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Adelaide</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
point out that so many years of cooling already contradict the theory that
man’s rapidly increasing gases must drive up temperatures ever faster.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But
that’s all theory. The question I’ve asked is: What signs can you
actually see of the man-made warming that the alarmists predicted? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
As has been projected by climate science over the last 20 years, the increase
in atmospheric energy level associated with global warming results in greater
variability, including: greater frequency and stronger amplitude of the ENSO
(El-Nino – La-Nina) cycle and extreme weather events (hurricane
intensity, floods, extreme droughts and fires) and, most particularly, rapid
melt rates of large parts of the Arctic Sea ice, Greenland and West Antarctic
ice sheets and shelves — as is in fact happening around the world,
including the recent Australian droughts, mega-bush fires and floods Australia.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
2 — THE POLAR CAPS ARE MELTING</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Wrong. The British Antarctic Survey, working with NASA, last week confirmed ice
around <st1:place w:st="on">Antarctica</st1:place> has grown 100,000 sq km each
decade for the past 30 years. Long-term monitoring by the US National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration reports the same: southern hemisphere ice has
been expanding for decades.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As for
the <st1:place w:st="on">Arctic</st1:place>, wrong again. The Arctic ice cap
shrank badly two summers ago after years of steady decline, but has since
largely recovered. Satellite data from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight
Centre this week shows the Arctic hasn’t had this much April ice for at
least seven years. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Norway</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre says the ice is now within the
standard deviation range for 1979 to 2007. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
This claim is inconsistent with the numerous reports by NASA and the National
Ice and Snow Data Centre ( NSIDC) regarding the Arctic Sea ice, Greenland and
West Antarctica (References: here; here; here; here), while the entire
Antarctic ice sheet (east and west) has warmed over the last 50 years by 0.12
degrees C per decade and west Antarctica by 0.17 degrees C per-decade,
including major polar warming anomalies where mean temperature rises over the
last 10 years reached levels 3 to 4 degrees higher than during 1951 –
1980.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
3 — WE’VE NEVER HAD SUCH A BAD DROUGHT</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Wrong. A study released this month by the University of NSW Climate Change
Research Centre confirms not only that we’ve had worse droughts, but this
Big Dry is not caused by “global warming,” whether man-made or not.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As the
university’s press release says: “The causes of southeastern <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>’s longest, most severe and
damaging droughts have been discovered, with the surprise finding that they
originate far away in the <st1:place w:st="on">Indian Ocean</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“A
team of Australian scientists has detailed for the first time how a phenomenon
known as the Indian Ocean Dipole — a variable and irregular cycle of
warming and cooling of ocean water — dictates whether moisture-bearing
winds are carried across the southern half of Australia.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
The development of the Indian Ocean dipoleis related to the current La-Nina
ENSO phase and the development of turbulence northwest of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:place></st1:State>, resulting in strong
southeast-directed air currents. The warming of these currents as they pass
over inland <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
result in the dry warm winds which created the conditions for the tragic
Victorian fires, as confirmed by CSIRO.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
4 — OUR CITIES HAVE NEVER BEEN HOTTER</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Wrong. The alleged “record” temperature <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:place></st1:City> set in January - 46.4 degrees - was
in fact topped by the 47.2 degrees the city recorded in 1851. (See the Argus
newspaper of February 8, 1851.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>And
here’s another curious thing: Despite all this warming we’re
alleged to have caused, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Victoria</st1:place></st1:State>’s
highest temperature on record remains the 50.7 degrees that hit Mildura 103
years ago. <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Australia</st1:place></st1:State>’s
hottest day is still the 50.7 degrees Oodnadatta suffered 37 years ago.
NSW’s high is still the 50 degrees recorded 70 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>What’s
more, not one of the world’s seven continents has set a record high
temperature since 1974. Europe’s high remains the 50 degrees measured in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region> 128 years
ago, before the invention of the first true car.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
Isolated extreme weather events occurred throughout history, but the rapid rise
in mean global temperatures since early 20 the century (+ 0.8 degrees C, or 1.3
degrees C once the masking effect of emitted sulphur aerosols is accounted
for), and related shift of global climate zones by hundreds of km toward the
poles , exacerbate these events, including droughts. Climate
“skeptics” consistently confuse the weather for the climate, cite
isolated weather events and decline to look at decade-scale climate trends, as
explained among others in Pittock’s authoritative books.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
5 — THE SEAS ARE GETTING HOTTER</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Wrong. If anything, the seas are getting colder. For five years, a network of
3175 automated bathythermographs has been deployed in the oceans by the Argo
program, a collaboration between 50 agencies from 26 countries. Warming
believer Josh Willis, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, reluctantly
concluded: “There has been a very slight cooling . . .” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
Check NASA’s website and find out that ocean surface temperatures have
been rising through the last few decades (for example by 0.2 to 1.0 degrees C
in most areas during 2000-2009 relative to 1951-1980), while lesser areas
cooled by -0.2 to -0.5 mostly in the Pacific Ocean, partly in connection with
La-Nina phases. Sea surface temperature increases around Australia are reported
by CSIRO (“ Ocean warming on the rise “), stating: “The team
of Australian and US climate researchers found the world’s oceans warmed
and rose at a rate 50 percent faster in the last four decades of the 20th
century than documented in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Report (IPCC AR4).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
6 — THE SEAS ARE RISING</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Wrong. For almost three years, the seas have stopped rising, according to the
Jason-1 satellite mission monitored by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Colorado</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>That
said, the seas have risen steadily and slowly for the past 10,000 years through
natural warming, and will almost certainly resume soon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But there
is little sign of any accelerated rises, even off <st1:country-region w:st="on">Tuvalu</st1:country-region>
or the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maldives</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
islands often said to be most threatened with drowning.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Professor
Nils-Axel Moerner, one of the world’s most famous experts on sea levels,
has studied the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maldives</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in particular and concluded there has been no net rise there for 1250 years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Venice</span></font></st1:place></st1:City> is still
above water.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
>From about 9000 years ago sea level have risen by about 15 meters (Siddall et
al, 2003: <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Nature</font></i></em>, 423:
853-853). Rates of sea level rise rose from a mean of 0.11 cm/year during 1870
-1970 to a mean of 0.25 cm/year during 1970 – 2006 and are currently
rising at 0.35 cm/year, confirmed by both tide gauge measurements ( US
Geological Survey ) and satellite measurements.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
7 — CYCLONES ARE GETTING WORSE</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Wrong. Ryan Maue of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Florida</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
recently measured the frequency, intensity and duration of all hurricanes and
cyclones to compile an Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>His
findings? The energy index is at its lowest level for more than 30 years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The World
Meteorological Organization, in its latest statement on cyclones, said it was
impossible to say if they were affected by man’s gases: “Though there
is evidence both for and against the existence of a detectable anthropogenic
signal in the tropical cyclone climate record to date, no firm conclusion can
be made on this point.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
Cyclone intensity, related to sea surface temperatures, has risen according to
Webster et al. 2005, who observe “We examined the number of tropical
cyclones and cyclone days as well as tropical cyclone intensity over the past
35 years, in an environment of increasing sea surface temperature. A large
increase was seen in the number and proportion of hurricanes reaching
categories 4 and 5. The largest increase occurred in the North Pacific, Indian,
and <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Southwest</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Pacific</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Oceans</st1:PlaceType>, and the smallest percentage
increase occurred in the <st1:place w:st="on">North Atlantic Ocean</st1:place>.
These increases have taken place while the number of cyclones and cyclone days
has decreased in all basins except the <st1:place w:st="on">North Atlantic</st1:place>
during the past decade.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
8 — THE <st1:place w:st="on">GREAT BARRIER REEF</st1:place> IS DYING</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Wrong. Yes, in 1999, Professor Ove Hoegh-Gulberg, our leading reef alarmist and
administrator of more than $30 million in warming grants, did claim the reef
was threatened by warming, and much had turned white.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But he
then had to admit it had made a “surprising” recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yes, in
2006 he again warned high temperatures meant “between 30 and 40 per cent
of coral on <st1:State w:st="on">Queensland</st1:State>’s <st1:place
w:st="on">Great Barrier Reef</st1:place> could die within a month”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But he
later admitted this bleaching had “minimal impact”. Yes, in 2007 he
again warned that temperature changes of the kind caused by global warming were
bleaching the reef.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But this
month fellow <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Queensland</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> researchers
admitted in a study that reef coral had once more made a “spectacular
recovery”, with “abundant corals re-established in a single
year”. The reef is blooming.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
That the Great Barrier Reef is suffering from elevated temperatures, increased
acidity and coral bleaching is beyond dispute as has been observed by numerous
studies, including the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Queensland</st1:PlaceName>, the Marine Park Authority and the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Australian</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
9 — OUR SNOW SEASONS ARE SHORTER</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Wrong. Poor snow falls in 2003 set off a rash of headlines predicting warming
doom. The CSIRO typically fed the hysteria by claiming global warming would
strip resorts of up to a quarter of their snow by 2018.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yet the
past two years have been bumper seasons for <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Victoria</st1:place></st1:State>’s snow resorts, and this year
could be just as good, with snow already falling in NSW and Victoria this past
week. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
Typically climate skeptics will look at annual or biannual changes rather than
longer term decade-scale trends, and this applies to the ever shortening snow
seasons in the Australian snow fields.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MYTH
10 — TSUNAMIS AND OTHER DISASTERS ARE GETTING WORSE</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BOLT</span></font></b></strong>:
Are you insane? Tsunamis are in fact caused by earthquakes. Yet there was World
Vision boss Tim Costello last week, claiming that <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>
was a “region, thanks to climate change, that has far more cyclones,
tsunamis, droughts”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Wrong,
wrong and wrong, Tim. But what do facts matter now to a warming evangelist when
the cause is so just?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>And so
any disaster is now blamed on man-made warming the way they once were on Satan.
<a href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm">See for yourself</a> on the
full list, including kidney stones, volcanic eruptions, lousy wine, insomnia,
bad tempers, Vampire moths and bubonic plagues. Nothing is too far-fetched to
be seized upon by carpetbaggers and wild preachers as signs of a warming we
can’t actually see.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Not for
nothing are polar bears the perfect symbol of this faith — bears said to
be threatened by warming, when their numbers have in fact increased.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Bottom
line: fewer people now die from extreme weather events, whether cyclones,
floods or blinding heatwaves.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Read that
in a study by Indur Goklany, who represented the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> at the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change: “There is no signal in the mortality data to indicate
increases in the overall frequencies or severities of extreme weather events,
despite large increases in the population at risk.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So stop
this crazy panic.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>First
step: check again your list of the signs you thought you saw of global warming.
How many are true? What do you think, and why do you think it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yes, the
world may resume warming in one year or 100. But it hasn’t been warming
as the alarmists said it must if man were to blame, and certainly not as the
media breathlessly keeps claiming.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best we
all just settle down, then, and wait for the proof — the real proof.
After all, panicking over invisible things is so undignified, don’t you
think?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GLIKSON</span></font></b></strong>:
This point is answered in the reference to Webster et al. 2005 above, showing
the frequency of category 4 and 5 cyclones has increased during the last
decade.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=author><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dr Andrew Glikson is with the Research School of Earth Science & <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Archaeology</st1:PlaceName>
& Anthropology at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Australian</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canberra</st1:place></st1:City>. He
can be reached at: <a href="mailto:andrew.glikson@anu.edu.au">andrew.glikson@anu.edu.au</a>.
<a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/author/AndrewGlikson/">Read other articles
by Andrew</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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