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Don’t Say “Natural Variability”
Word that the climate of doom we were promised (repeatedly) has not obtained has begun leaking out. Climatologists have known this for quite some time, but now even environmental activists…
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Don’t Say “Hiatus.”
Don't say "pause", either. Update: Nor (see this post) "natural variability". What a mistake it is to use these words! There is no possible meaning of them which is sensible…
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The IPCC’s And McKitrick’s “Hiatus” Time Series Models
Several readers asked me to look at Ross McKitrick's paper "HAC-Robust Measurement of the Duration of a Trendless Subsample in a Global Climate Time Series", which is receiving the usual…
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People’s Climate March: The Face Of True Belief #PeoplesClimate
Nice people Ready for a surprise? I liked everybody I met. I mean it. I liked them so much I hated what I had to write below. I liked the…
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We Know The Climate Is Warming Because It Isn’t
What do you call the mental process which allows a man to say "What's firmly established is that the climate is warming" while also holding that "There's been a burst…
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Best Drinking Songs?
The results of the Theme Song post are below. Best drinking songs? How about this? I mean The Perfect Fool's part, Ed "Fire Chief" Wynn's bit. Don't you dare say…
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Lovejoy’s New Attempt To Show We Are Doomed Does Not Convince
We last met Shaun Lovejoy when he claimed that mankind caused global temperatures to increase. At the 99.9% level, of course. He's now saying that the increase which wasn't observed…
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Your Big Government Update
Government Is Driving Inequality One thing my lefty friends are right about is the growing number of rich. The distributions of income and of wealth are moving ever farther from…