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UN: Population To Swell To 15 Billion By 2100
It took two- to three-hundred thousand years for humans to break the 7 billion mark, which it is scheduled to do sometime late this year or early in 2012. But…
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D.J. Keenan’s And My BEST Methodology Reviews
Doug Keenan was asked by The Economist to have a gander at the statistics developed by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. He did so. We must resist extensive…
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Legal Standards Of Proof And Probability
Different courts and legal systems use diverse phrases about evidentiary standards of proof1. Few to none are precise in the sense that they offer a fixed probability number for this…
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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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Are 40 Percent of Europeans Mentally Ill?
Forty-percent of a population is a lot. Imagine a street filled with people---European people. Perhaps they are standing in line waiting for their free health care. Four out of ten…
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Spencer’s Paper Reviewed; Remote Sensing Editor Wolfgang Wagner Resigns
Politics In one of the most asinine, self-promoting, sniveling, absurd, nakedly political moves Wolfgang Wagner has resigned, with trumpets blazing, his editorship of Remote Sensing. Why? Because the journal under…
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UN Nearly Makes Climate Change A Peace And Security Matter
Sorry for the cliché but Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble! Global warming is generating an "unholy brew" of vexatious weather events that threaten "international peace…
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Reading Spencer’s Radiation Paper; Polar Bears Flap: Scientist Under Investigation
Thanks to all the readers who have altered me to Roy Spencer and William Braswell's new paper, "On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy…