Posted in Climate Change, Things that make me go hmm... on Jan 17th, 2012
The problems Nome has had with getting oil delivered is an interesting story, U.S. Icebreaker About to Reach Cut-Off Alaska Town. It appears that the city of Nome contracted with the Russians since they had a ice-classed tanker available. Although it was ice-classed it was not an icebreaker. So Nome had to convince the Coast [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Feb 14th, 2010
I agree with Ann Althouse that the admissions make the non-skeptics, scientists and media, look bad. By failing to effectively criticize their own arguments for global warming, these non-skeptics have done more harm to the global progress on environmental issues than anything the deniers could say or do. Now we are confronted with a large [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Jan 3rd, 2010
With all of the talk about the Climategate emails I devised a simple thought experiment for scientists. Let us imagine that you are teaching a college science class and you have assigned a science project to your students that will comprise the majority of their grade for the semester. The objective of the project is [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Humor on Jan 1st, 2010
I am beginning to think that this global warming crisis is a sinister plot by statistics professors to get more students to take statistics courses. Despite my misgivings about the true motives of global warming I will take the opportunity to give a big thanks to Luboš for encouraging me to refresh my knowledge of [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Nov 25th, 2009
The article published at Pajamas Media, Climategate Computer Codes Are the Real Story, is the best explanation of why the global warming scientists have been so passionate in avoiding the Freedom of Information act requests. These scientists knew they were in a lose-lose predicament. They knew they were brushing up with the law if they [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Jul 20th, 2009
On Friday the woman giving the weather report for the Cincinnati area said we might need to break out the sweaters. She was predicting that the high temperatures for the day might set new records for the lowest recorded high temperature. It seems like we have had only seven days of summer weather. Last night [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Politics on Jun 27th, 2009
"I’m sure it was very inconvenient for the EPA to consider a study that contradicted the findings it wanted to reach," Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the senior Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said in a statement. "But the EPA is supposed to reach its findings based on evidence, not [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Fun Facts on Mar 6th, 2009
Correlation Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT I got a good chuckle out of this. But then I find the blog, Climate Audit, and the article by Bruce McCullough and Ross McKitrick entitled, Check the numbers; From the U. S. subprime crisis to global warming, bad research is driving disastrous public policy, to be [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Feb 22nd, 2009
It is snowing again! I live near Cincinnati and last year by reckoning was the coldest winter since we moved here in 1999. It was cold and we had several snow storms that snowed us in. This year was colder and we seemed to have more snow. I had two 30 mile commutes that took [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Feb 22nd, 2009
Climate Audit pointed out an interesting article by Bruce McCullough and Ross McKitrick entitled Check the Numbers: The Case for Due Diligence in Policy Formation. They point out a common fallacy ‘peer reviewed’ journals is that no one checks the data. This becomes more than a academic journal problem when the report is used to [...]
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