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Earth Has Rights! Guest Post by John Henry Briggs
Since I am away out west, I sent intrepid reporter and number two son John Henry Briggs to the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center, where…
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Taxing The Rich Always Fails Eventually
The solution Mr Obama proposed yesterday for increasing the federal budget was to raise taxes. He did not suggest taking a one-time chunk of money from those who earned it…
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Overstretching Climate Change Attribution
Says Camille Parmesan and others, "The biological world is responding rapidly to a changing climate, but attempts to attribute individual impacts to rising greenhouse gases are ill-advised" (from the first…
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Wisconsin Election Statistics
Much is being made of the election between Republican State Supreme Court Justice Prosser and Democrat Kloppenburg. On election night a quick count of votes was made and released immediately…
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Chu On These Climate Tipping Points
"Beware the Tipping Point, my son! That little wee thing, the difference it makes! Beware its Connector Theory, and shun Its luminous Balderdash!" With appropriate apologies to the great logician…
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Guilty People Aren’t Guilty, Innocent People Are
The man who took the knife and slit the throat of the woman whose money and body he wanted could not help himself. But the judge who sentenced that man…
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Climate Science And Significance: Wall Street Journal Takes On Statistics
Coin Flips and Dice Rolls Doug Keenan has a must-read piece in the Wall Street Journal on the time series analysis of global temperature (Thanks to Randy, Roger, and John…
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California Air Resources Board Uses Strange Statistics, UCLA Fires Scientist
The story (related in full at HotAir.org) is long and tangled, but the short version is this. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) wanted to regulate diesel truck fumes, inherently…