The 2010 Winter Olympics are over and the USA came out on top with the highest medal count at 37. Germany was next at 30, followed by Canada at 26. Lost in […]
Do Stricter Gun Laws Lead to More Crime? Brady Gun Law Scorecard & Murder Rates
The final installment of the Liberal Fascism review will appear tomorrow. I was inspired to write this after reading a Mike Adams column, in which he pointed to a Don Surber column, […]
Phil Jones and the Lack of Warming; Or, Die, Statistical Significance, Die
According to the stunning New York Times headline, which quoted climatologist Phil Jones, there has been no “statistically significant” global warming in the past 15 years. Just kidding! The Times forgot to […]
Phil Jones, I accept!
The other day, I asked Phil Jones and other climate scientists to rebuke some of their foaming-at-the-mouth colleagues for their inappropriate use of language. While I’m still awaiting a response—it should come […]
Rumsfeld and Keynes on Probability
In 2003, ex-sailor and then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, said the following: As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are […]
On the Morality of Global Warming Criticism
Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times and winner of a prestigious banking prize (usually mistakenly called a “Nobel”), has said that those who criticize theories of global warming are […]
All Models Are Not Wrong
George Box said, “Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.” This is usually misremembered as the equivalent, and […]
Seasonal Climate Forecasts Do Not Have Skill
David Lavers is the lead author in a GRL paper “A multiple model assessment of seasonal climate forecast skill for applications.” Lavers et al. checked eight different climate models and found that, […]
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