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National Post says statisticians needed too
Canada's National Post, in a piece from a little more than a year ago, made a call for more statisticians to be involved in climate change research, much as the…
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Prominent philosopher commits global warming fallacy
This post was supposed to be titled, "Conference Report: Day 1," because I intended to give a blow-by-blow of the American Meteorological Society meeting which started yesterday here in New…
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AMS conference report: day 3
More on hurricanes today. Jim Elsner, with co-author Tom Jagger, both from Florida State University started off by warning against using naive statistical methods on count data, such as hurricanes.…
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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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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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Today’s excuses for not posting
CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS FROM A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE The Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, F?sicas y Naturales of Spain and the Fundaci?n Ram?n Areces are sponsoring that conference…
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Heartland conference: day 3 and wrap up
Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus started off the day with a rousing speech. I hadn't known he was an economist, but it was obvious quickly through his use of phrases…
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Another reason to leave academia
1. Repeat after me: "There are no innate biological differences between men and women...except, well, women are of course better nurturers, sympathizers, empathizers, and a score of other things." 2.…
