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	Climate's changed before
	It's the sun
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This is the archived Intermediate rebuttal to the climate myth "It's land use". Click here to view the latest rebuttal.

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Correlations between warming and economic activity are most likely spurious. They don't take into account local forcing agents such as tropospheric ozone or black carbon. Correlations are likely over-estimated since grid boxes in both economic and cl

See Spurious correlations between recent warming and indices of local economic activity (Schmidt 2009) for more info.

Updated on 2010-06-26 by John Cook.

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