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| | Competitive Enterprise Institute |
 | | Willie Soon will discuss the findings of a new Marshall Institute report, Lessons and Limits of Climate History: Was the 20th Century Climate Unusual?, which shows that the temperature record of the late 20th century was not remarkable relative to that of the past 1,000 years. |
 | | The report, authored by the Marshall Institute's Senior Scientists Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, challenges frequently made claims that the 20th century was warmer than any other in the millennium, that the 1990s were the warmest decade of the millennium, and that 1998 was the warmest year in the past 1,000 years. |
 | | Soon, a research physicist, is also the lead author of a related scientific article, "Reconstructing Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Past 1000 Years: A Re-Appraisal," which was published this spring in the journal Energy and Environment. |
| www.cei.org /gencon/028,03472.cfm (160 words) |
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