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...Research by M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Richard Lindzen suggests that warming will tend to make cirrus clouds go away. Another critic, John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says that while the models reproduce the current climate in a general way, they fail to get right the amount of warming at different levels in the atmosphere. Neither Lindzen nor Christy (both IPCC authors) doubts, however, that humans are influencing the climate. But they question how much?and how high temperatures will go. Both scientists are distressed that only the most extreme scenarios, based on huge population growth...
...neighbor Jeffrey Silver won with correct votes in 15 of the 23 categories; I had, well, fewer - though I did predict seven of the top eight winners in my Oscar-nominations story on this site last month. And since you have access to a professional critic, you'll want me to answer the burning question of Academty Awards Night: Just what is the difference between Sound and Sound Editing? I haven't a clue. Some Oscar mysteries are not meant to be solved...
Pauline Hanson, Australia's right-wing populist critic of Asian immigration, is back in the news thanks to her One Nation party's role in humiliating the ruling federal coalition through two recent state elections. Many Australians are embarrassed not just by her views but by the eagerness with which the foreign media, which otherwise takes scant interest in Australian domestic politics, obsessively cover her. But should either Australians or the rest of the world worry about the Hanson phenomenon? And don't many of the same Asian nations that now cast aspersions at this supposed upsurge of racism also...
Manet's paintings rarely sold (luckily, he had some money of his own). For most of his short career--he was 51 when he died--he was ferociously assailed by nearly every critic and journalist in Paris. (Some of them actually liked his still lifes and reserved their scorn for his portraits and figures.) His greatest paintings, Olympia and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, which today are among the unquestioned masterpieces of the 19th century and are seen by many as the twin pillars that mark and hold up the entrance to modernism, were pilloried by every man of taste...
Crouching Traffic, Hidden Winner TIME movie critic Richard Corliss is your Monday-morning quarterback for Oscar?s winners and sinners...