There's Nancy Pelosi, Six Gun of State strapped to her side, the sun burning overhead. And there's you, armed only with Freedom, thirty paces off. It's a standoff! If you…

Read Part I The Analysis (cont.) Two problems arise when comparing a model's integration (the forecast) with an analysis of new observations, which are not found when comparing the forecast…

Today's post is at Pajamas Media: President Obama To Make Poverty Permanent. The Obama administration will create a new definition of poverty, one that changes as a function of how…

Would you check the results of a model with another model? Before you answer, be sure you know what the question is. A model---whether it is physical, statistical, mathematical, or…

Thanks to readers Ari Schwartz and Tom Pollard for suggesting this article. Take any two sets of numbers, where the only restriction is that a reasonable chunk inside each set…

We meet four Ladies Who Lunch in an Upper West Side New York bistro. "Martha!" cooed Sarah. "Sarah!" cooed Martha. "Janet and Catherine late as usual, I see." "Never mind…

Today's post is at Pajama's Media: The Inevitable Failure (by Design) of Cap and Trade. The editors David Steinberg and Aaron Hanscom generously supplied the title and tag-line, which is,…

I am not sure how to classify certain global-warming proponents. As I have said many times, the majority of climate scientists are honest, hard working men. Some are more prone…