New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is calling for the heads of “deniers” again. In his “Betraying the Planet“, he says that anybody who doesn’t agree with his understanding on climate models […]
Podcast Radio Show – Episode #4: Belief in Climate Models
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_14oct2009_0004.mp3[/podcast] On today’s episode: Science and skeptical bloggers A small article in last week’s Science magazine frets that skeptical bloggers are teasing climate scientists over their failed predictions. Bloggers are pointing out […]
Decision Calculator
This is just a rough prototype meant to be easy to play with inside a post. READ the help and guidebook! Suggestions for new canned examples welcome—the hard part is deriving historical […]
Briggs and Big Oil
The closest I come to “Big Oil” is when I create my spécialité de la maison: bacon-olive-oil confit. Incidentally, that’s the only way to cook this miracle pig meat—frying removes all that […]
Climategate Predictions: The Aftermath
The aftermath isn’t yet upon us. We are still in the in situ-math. But I thought it would be fun anyway to make some definite, testable predictions of what will happen given […]
A Response to What is—and what isn’t—evidence of global warming.
Reader Marvin was kind enough to pass on Wednesday’s Pajama’s Media article What is—and what isn’t—evidence of global warming to a “highly educated” person (those are not scare quotes, but Marvin’s words). […]
Protesters gather in Copenhagen. Why?
Be sure to visit again tomorrow, for another article in this series. Time is up. Time to fight passion with calm reason. That always works, doesn’t it? Those thousands of “activists” and […]
Malthus Was Wrong, But Not Why You Think
It’s hard to think of a historical writer more misunderstood than Thomas Malthus. A week doesn’t go by without somebody dropping his name, but only to show how wrong he was. Take […]
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