Posted inPhilosophy
Homogenization of temperature series: Part II
Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Aside: counterfactuals A counterfactual is statement saying what would be the case if its conditional were…
Posted inStatistics
Homogenization of temperature series: Part I
Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Introduction Time to get technical. First, surf over to Willis Eschenbach's gorgeous piece of statistical detective…
Posted inStatistics
San Francisco Chronicle can’t make up its mind about global warming
In today's print edition, above the fold, is the item: Climate change: The Obama administration declares that global-warming from man-made greenhouse gases endangers health. Note carefully that it has declared…
Posted inStatistics
Pajamas Media Post: ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’ Fails Logic 101
Head on over to Pajamas Media for today's post. Thanks to David Steinberg for providing the title.
Posted inStatistics
Protesters gather in Copenhagen. Why?
Be sure to visit again tomorrow, for another article in this series. Time is up. Time to fight passion with calm reason. That always works, doesn't it? Those thousands of…
Posted inCulture
Gotta fear them crazy GIs
An AP article claims "Militia movement resurfaces across U.S." (link here; though this story differs from the one I read in the San Jose Mercury News). How did they come…
Posted inCulture
I don’t want to eat protein
I suppose it was inevitable. People have been watching their 'carbs' for years, or 'carbo loading' before running a race. When I was a kid, only chemists knew what a…
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Carbon coaching
In one Seinfeld episode, Kramer has joined the annual Manhattan AIDS walk but has refused to wear the symbolic twisted red ribbon. He is confronted by an angry group of…
