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How Did Such A Smart Guy Get So Stupid: Bill Gates & Cow Farts
CLASS RESUMES NEXT MONDAY. Bill Gates can’t be an idiot. I take his career as obvious proof of this. The man has made a mark. Then retired from that which…
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The Ugly Unreality Of The Homogenization Of Time Series: Why Climate Scientists Are Too Sure Of Themselves
Day two of the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change". Your author has many bona fides and much experience in this field: see this. Announcement. I…
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Climate The Science Causes Blindness
The average daily temperature in Singapore is 88 degrees. Or, in barbarian units, 31. Every day of the year. Here's the headline: "Now scientists say climate change is making us…
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On Breaking Climate Records — And Not Panicking
Thucydides in The Peloponnesian War speaks of Athenian prisoners dying from "variation in the temperature" in the conditions they were kept. Athens itself suffered deadly droughts at least in the…
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Signal + Noise vs. Signal: Don’t Make This Classic Mistake
Day three of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change". Your author has many bona fides and much experience in this field: see this. Announcement. I am on vacation…
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Do not smooth times series, you hockey puck!
Welcome to the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change", a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author has…
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Lawyers Get Excited Suing Over “Climate Change”
"It bears repeating over and over," opened a recent Nature editorial on suing over "climate change". "The science is not in question." Now why would a "the science" that is…
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How Smoothing Time Series Generates Massive Over-Certainty
Day four of the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change", a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author…
