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Global Warming Is Anti-Science
It is not anti-science to say that humans influence the climate, because, of course, humans, and every other species on the planet, influences the climate. At the least, humans move…
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Why Progressives Believe Global Warming
Everybody believes propositions based on arguments of some kind. All progressives (so far as I know) believe in global-warming-of-doom, defined as if-we-don't-do-something-the-world-boils. What argument are they using? Probably more than…
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Firearm Homicides Dropping: All The Latest Stats
I rarely ask this, but please link, forward, email, and favorite this post as widely as possible. See below for copying permission. A version of this post originally ran 16…
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Mainstream Global Warming Reporters Are Biased, Unteachable, Lazy, & Unethical
The left-wing Washington Post, stepping up its advocacy, issued a set of words yesterday teaching the global warming controversy and ignoring science. Typical. The somehow aptly named E Wemple gave…
Willie Soon & I Are On An Internet Radio Show Today Celebrating Earth Day: Update
Gaia herself was reportedly besides herself with excitement when she heard Willie Soon and I were to be interviewed on The Yaron Brook Show today. You can tune in to…
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Sampling Variability Is A Screwy, Misleading Concept
https://twitter.com/Bigdatanalysis/status/573739862924353536 Because of travel and jet lag, exacerbated by "springing forward", we continue our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles next week. If you can't read the tweet above, it says…
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P-Value Hacking Is Finally Being Noticed
Since I'm on the road, all typos today are free of charge. Some reasonably good news to report. A peer-reviewed paper: "The fickle P value generates irreproducible results" by Lewis…
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Der Spiegel Asks About Global-Warming-Causes-Syrian-Civil-War Paper
That peer-reviewed Colin Kelley et al. paper "Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought", which the traddy media is portraying like Wired did---e.g. How…
