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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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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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George Gilder’s Information Theory Of Money

This is the second part of a review of George Gilder's monograph The 21st Century Case for Gold: A New Information Theory of Money. The first part, about the return…

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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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Heartland Conference, Statistics Classes, Statistics Books, & Statistical Cups

Heartland Conference I'll be there, speaking Friday on "The Need To Believe In 'The Solution' To Global Warming". This is a paper which I'll try to find a home for…

Thousands of Millions to be Eased | contrary2belief on Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200August 7, 2026
[…] William M. Briggs, Statistician to the Stars identifies the easing of morals and ethics in academia. […]
Johnno on Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200August 7, 2026
Any volunteers to contribute to the easing? Hello? Anyone...?
Fubsy on Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200August 6, 2026
We can call it "The Great Easement"
C-Marie on Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200August 6, 2026
Knowingly, or not, they are writing of the coming New World Order in which they will not include the Triune…
Cary Cotterman on Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200August 6, 2026
The population is (according to the paper) about four times what it was a century ago. As we know, the…