“Holy CO2, Gaia Girl! It’s the evil Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley! We have to stop him before he goes all Lordly on us!” “Gosh, you’re right Flash Carbon! But […]
Global Warming Superheroes
Taipei Cabbies And Food
So we were in a cab and the driver waits to hear Where to? News Years street, we say. Why? the driver asks. To So and So’s famous place for crispy pig […]
Classical Statistics Is Like A Criminal Trial
What is A crime has been committed. Evidence—probative background information—points to a list of suspects, a list which, as always, might be incomplete. A most likely candidate is made to stand trial. […]
Cultural Suicide: Have A Merry Holidays
Suicide used to be considered a criminal act. Naturally, once you’ve offed yourself and the authorities have your corpse in hand, there is not much in the way of punishment that they […]
What’s Wrong With Hypothesis Testing: Reader Question
I received this email from long-time reader Ivin Rhyne, which is so well put that I thought we should all see it (I’m quoting with permission): Matt, I just got back from […]
John Cage’s 4′ 33″
As much as I think his theories are composed of aether, I wish, and heartily too, that John Cage’s masterpiece 4′ 33″ were pumped through public speakers more often. I would that […]
What Is A “Statistically Significant Trend”?
Longtime reader Nate Winchester found a discussion—among the many, many—of global warming data revolving around statistics, from which we take the following snippet: You just do the statistics on the data. If […]
Global Warming Causes Death
Work is catching up to me this week, so today only the briefest of reports, with the promise of a return to regularity after this weekend. Also keep those post suggestions coming […]
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