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Hello Nate. I've tried to contact you through online channels, Joan Diamond and Michael Dietrick who says he knows you well. You are doing great work. A few years ago I developed a new "communication" approach to improve online communications. I got one group to try it. A topic they were discussing for over 4 years with no resolution, was RESOLVED in 2 months! I'm not trying to sell this. I'm sure it could kick your effort into an entire new modality. Please give me a way to contact you. Bruce Nappi bnappi } a t { A3RI [d o t] org

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Great work Nate! It's not often when experts in paleoclimatology are interviewed.

We are in a period of great climate change, and there is a lot of fear mongering among many commentators. For instance Guy McPherson says that humans couldn't survive in a climate 3C hotter than pre industrial climate.

This demotivates people a lot, because they just give up. 'There's no hope so what's the point?" they say.

I tell them that primates evolved 55million years ago when the planet was as much as 12C hotter than today. This is the period called the PETM.

I sometimes wonder if the doomsayers like Guy are being paid by the fossil fuel industry to shut down opposition to their industry.

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