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Pope’s Encyclical Leaked: Relevant Climate Portion
I've been asked to do pieces on this in other places, which I'm on, but I'm also teaching from 9 to 5 today, so for us all I can do…
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What Is Cause Like?
Time for the two-week teaching sojourn. In order to grasp cause, we need a brief, a very brief, introduction to the Aristotelian metaphysics of change. These are ancient views, largely…
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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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Heartland Climate Conference #ICCC10: Day 3. True Believers
As has often been said, PowerPoint is sure proof of Satan's existence. I agree. This is why I eschewed that excruciating, demonic contrivance and instead read a paper. The benefit…
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Heartland Climate Conference #ICCC10: Day 2. Lousy Models, Wrong Theory
Forgive the brief post. Got back late, got up early, and have to be out early. Don't want to miss Mark Steyn's breakfast speech. See the Twitter hashtag #ICCC10 or…
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Heartland Climate Conference: Day 1. Everybody Gets Time Series Wrong
As predicted, there were cigars. But I missed them. The smoking party left without me while I listed to Ireland's version of the Mr Wizard brothers. A science experiment involving…
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I Am In Awe Of What Passes For Science
I'm traveling to the Heartland Climate Conference today. Special speakers dinner and pep talk later, and, rumor has it, cigars and whiskey. I started that rumor, and I have cigars,…
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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…