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This is no panacaea, but can be incredibly helpful when one can clearly divide "programs" from "data" (which, unfortunately, is not as easy as it sounds, especially if there's any encryption involved).
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I was just taking a bit of writer's license to point out the fact that, at the moment, we have the panacaea of higher CO2 concentrations (photosynthesis, water and nitrogen-use efficiency) without much apparent warming.
RealClimate 2009
johnmperry commented on the word panacaea
more usually panacea
June 17, 2008