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#LaudatoSi Thoughts
I'll have more later, including a piece at The Stream. Still teaching. The fake controversy of the "broken embargo" is now at an end and we have the final text.…
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What The Republicans Didn’t Learn In Middle School. Guest Post by Mrs X
Editor's note: This column comes from somebody I spoke to when I was at the Heartland Climate Conference, ICCC-10---1, 2, 3---and who wishes to remain anonymous. It came at a…
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Free Range Adults
Editor says: note the author's name. The Free Range Kids movement, if we dare call it that, was started by Lenore Skenazy who had the audacity not only to send…
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Democracy And The Inevitable Erosion Of Standards: Racist Tests Edition
Democracies are born from elite (hierarchical) societies and for a time can and do retain much of their elitism, but since democracy is premised on egalitarianism ("We hold these truths..."),…
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How Many Lousy Predictions Until Error Is Admitted?
https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/605381412158500864 Update Breitbart kindly asked to reprint this, and just did. How long does it take for an expert who has, year upon year after year, made predictions of unrealized…
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Why Global Warming Models Are Hot And Bothered
https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/605381412158500864 Everybody remembers what happened when Lord Christopher Monckton, Willie Soon, David Legates and I published our (what is physics is called) toy model of the climate. Global warming increased!…
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Bill Nye Says, “Let’s Talk” About Global Warming. Okay, Let’s.
This article was co-authored by Willie Soon. If anybody has a way to contact Bill Nye, make sure he sees this. Bill "The Science Guy" Nye went on CNN recently…
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This Week In Doom: Bad Science Edition
3 out of 4 scientists agree The bagatelle about how more than half of published research is wrong---a fact well known to regular readers---is garnering comment hither and yon. Joanne…