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James Hansen Was Right
Let it not be said that I cannot admit when an enemy is right. When right is right it is right to acknowledge that right. And James Hansen---that infrequent visitor…
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Heartland Documents Leaked, Massaged, Faked
First thing I did, after hearing that the Heartland Institute's budget was leaked, was to pore through it looking for my name in the hopes of seeing how much moola…
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Autism Caused By Highways?
Epidemiology is nothing if not a productive field. All that is needed for success is a database (larger the better), a disease (any will do), and some minor facility with…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Curtis’s The Science Of Subjectivity
An unfocused post today; just some notes on a paper. Busy day for me. Andrew Curtis wrote, "The science of subjectivity" in the January 2012 issue of the journal Geology…
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Global Warming, Asinine Science Roundup
Still in Taipei and a bit swamped. Here are some links that will be of interest; mostly provided by Willie Soon, Marc Morano, and readers just like you! Trenberth's Null…
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Your Belief In God Is Causing Your Denial Of AGW
Update Simon Donner has a blog post on this paper, which links back here. Since all comments are closed after 8 days (to battle spam), I'm moving this post to…
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Global Warming Increases Disastrous Music: A Scientific Paper
A scientific paper in a grand tradition (notice the scientific formatting and use of p-values): the custom is to read only the Abstract; only the brave and bored should venture…
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Global Warming: Is Weight Loss A Solution?
That title is taken from an article of the same name in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Obesity by Gryka, Bloom, and Rolland, themselves from the Centre for Obesity Research…