More on hurricanes today. Jim Elsner, with co-author Tom Jagger, both from Florida State University started off by warning against using naive statistical methods on count data, such as hurricanes.…

The short answer, I will disappoint many of you by saying, is no. Like I wrote before, climatologists are generally nice people genuinely struggling with understanding the immense complexities of…

CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS FROM A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE The Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, F?sicas y Naturales of Spain and the Fundaci?n Ram?n Areces are sponsoring that conference…

Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus started off the day with a rousing speech. I hadn't known he was an economist, but it was obvious quickly through his use of phrases…

1. Repeat after me: "There are no innate biological differences between men and women...except, well, women are of course better nurturers, sympathizers, empathizers, and a score of other things." 2.…

Parts of this analysis were suggested by Allan MacRae, who kindly offered comments on the exposition of this article which greatly improved its readability. The article is incomplete, but I…

I am in Ithaca, New York, teaching a short course at Cornell University. Have you ever visited Ithaca? It was once voted the "most enlightened city in America" by the…

If you doubt any claim made about man-made global warming, Jennifer Jacquet thinks you are a "miscreant" and on par with those who deny that "smoking causes cancer." She also…