Says Camille Parmesan and others, “The biological world is responding rapidly to a changing climate, but attempts to attribute individual impacts to rising greenhouse gases are ill-advised” (from the first issue of Nature: Climate Change). With everything after the “but” … Continue reading
“Beware the Tipping Point, my son! That little wee thing, the difference it makes! Beware its Connector Theory, and shun Its luminous Balderdash!” With appropriate apologies to the great logician whose words I abused, we consider the mysterious, misunderstood Tipping … Continue reading
Coin Flips and Dice Rolls Doug Keenan has a must-read piece in the Wall Street Journal on the time series analysis of global temperature (Thanks to Randy, Roger, and John for the links). I differ from Keenan on the value … Continue reading
The story (related in full at HotAir.org) is long and tangled, but the short version is this. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) wanted to regulate diesel truck fumes, inherently believing them bad. So it sought the guidance of CARB … Continue reading