Posted inStatistics
Zombies no joke: global warming can cause anything
A day ago my number two son and I sat over a bottle of wine and he suggested that if global warming caused temperatures to increase, then we would see…
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Perspective
"The most vehement attack on the wartime press came not from Richard Nixon, but from William Tecumseh Sherman. 'If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the…
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Zombie attacks might increase due to global warming, study shows
A new study by scientists has suggested that zombie attacks might increase if the current projections of global warming are realized. "If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs,…
Posted inPhilosophy
You’re no climatologist! Or, who is allowed to criticize?
There is a distressing commonality when discussing climate science lately: many people skip past the data and arguments offered by a skeptic and ask the question, "Are you a climatologist?"…
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Is climatology a pseudoscience?
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…
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Best statistical, scientific talk on global warming
Some careful readers to this blog have pointed out the work of Australian geologist Bob Carter. If you have not yet seen his work, you should. So I want you…
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New York Times debate on AGU statement
The American Geophysical Union, of which I am a member, has, like many other organizations, e.g. the ASA, issued a statement concurring with the IPCC report. The text of that…
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Italian political tactics no different than Italian soccer tactics
As pointed out by my number one son, "during the debate [in the Italian senate] one senator rushed in fury to the desk of a colleague, Stefano Cusumano, and taunted…
