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Passing the Laugh Test

Early in my college career I learned that I needed to check my work if I wanted to pass the courses. I am pretty sure it was one of my engineering professors who recommended that I develop a way to quickly estimate the answer as a way of confirming my answer. He said I was [...]

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I am not sure how this happens but tonight we had a snow flurry at the same time 60 Minutes was showing a piece about global warming. I thought our recent record cold weather would save us for a few months from Big Media’s over-hyping of global warming predictions. The gist of their piece was [...]

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BLACKSBURG, Va., February 19, 2008 — A Virginia Tech student has created a floor lamp powered by gravity.
Clay Moulton of Springfield, Va., who received his master of science degree in architecture (concentration in industrial design) from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 2007, created the lamp when he was an industrial design graduate [...]

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“The only function of climate forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

If we are uncomfortable with economics forecasting why do we think we can do a better job forecasting climate changes with even less empirical data?

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What is needed is for the Congress to pass a law requiring that all new cars sold in the United States be flex-fueled - able to run on any combination of alcohol or gasoline fuel. Such cars are existing technology - in fact about 24 different models of flex-fuel cars were produced by the Detroit [...]

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Donald R. Gannon

“Where facts are few, experts are many.”

Donald R. Gannon
I guess this sums up my opinion about climate change predictions.

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Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former [...]

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Science Journal - WSJ.com

We all make mistakes and, if you believe medical scholar John Ioannidis, scientists make more than their fair share. By his calculations, most published research findings are wrong.
Science Journal - WSJ.com
This is an interesting article which repeats the research findings of Dr. Ioannidis and others. I carry a healthy respect for the difficulty that [...]

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Recently I saw an article on the Register that caused me to think about the basics of statistics again. Although I have learned a lot about statistics in the class room, that is not enough. It is through the frustrations of real life applications that you learn the true nature of statistics. As Benjamin Disraeli [...]

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Hot news: NASA quietly fixes flawed temperature data; 1998 was NOT the warmest year in the millenium
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The interesting thing about this “news” bite is that Oprah just played her Al Gore show on climate warming this week. My wife was swayed by the show and I found myself explaining to my wife [...]

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