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Heartland conference: day 1
For the next three days, I'll be reporting on the Heartland Conference on Climate Change. Day started late with a cash bar at the at the Marquis hotel. I live…
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The tyranny and hubris of experts
Today, another brief (in the sense of intellectual content) essay, as I'm still working on the Madrid talk, the Heartland conference is this weekend, and I have to, believe it…
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An excuse I hadn’t thought of
A few weeks ago I speculated what would happen if human-caused significant global warming (AGW) turned out to be false. There might be a number of people who will refuse…
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Mandatory suicide to reduce carbon footprint no joke
In an interview with Stephen Wright at Cracked.com, the comedian tells a favorite joke: You never know what you have until it's gone, and I wanted to know what I…
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San Francisco mandatory carbon-footprint reduction program begins
Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that San Francisco's mandatory carbon-footprint reduction program will begin as scheduled on the first of March. "There never was a problem as serious as global warming…
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You’re no climatologist! Or, who is allowed to criticize?
There is a distressing commonality when discussing climate science lately: many people skip past the data and arguments offered by a skeptic and ask the question, "Are you a climatologist?"…
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AMS conference report: day 3
More on hurricanes today. Jim Elsner, with co-author Tom Jagger, both from Florida State University started off by warning against using naive statistical methods on count data, such as hurricanes.…
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Climatologists are nice people
Most warm weekends, you can find me in Central Park by the Tavern on the Green playing the beautiful game of petanque. This is the French version of bocci, only…