Posted inFun
This Is A Stick Up
Before I begin, let me ask Biden voters: how you guys doing today? It's that happy joyous anticipated glorious time of year where I squeeze readers to fund my extravagant…
Posted inClass Statistics
Signal + Noise vs. Signal: Don’t Make This Classic Mistake
Day three of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change". Your author has many bona fides and much experience in this field: see this. Announcement. I am on vacation…
Posted inStatistics
How To Generate Massive Scientific Over-Certainty With These Four Simple Tricks
Update This must be more difficult than I thought, judging by lack of questions or comments. If you do not understand, ask. Here is a picture of what they are…
Posted inStatistics
There Is No Climate Emergency: So Say Us All
I am one of the more than one thousand scientists and related professionals who signed the World Climate Declaration, an effort started by a friend of ours Marcel Crok and…
Posted inStatistics
Claiming To Be Able To Blame Weather Events On Global Warming
This is not a big story, but it's worth highlighting because of the pernicious effects of science journalism, which suffers from the same faults as political journalism. Emphasis on extremes,…
Posted inCulture
How Expertism & The Woke Spreads In Science
The New England Journal of Medicine isn't exactly what its name indicates. It does tend to concentrate on publishing articles on various aspects of medicine. But it also engages in…
Posted inStatistics
Modulation of Ice Ages – Without CO2 — Guest Post by Ralph Ellis
Ellis sent me his paper "Modulation of Ice-ages via Precession and Dust-Albedo Feedbacks" in Geoscience Frontiers, and I found it rather intriguing. To greatly simplify: CO2 is good for you,…
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Top Scientists Plead For Someone To Calculate The Probability Of The End Of The World
Here's how the AP climate doom article starts: Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or the potential extinction of humans, however unlikely,…
