…may have overstated the case with the volcano and its effect on airplanes: Flawed computer models may have exaggerated the effects of an Icelandic volcano eruption that has grounded tens of thousands of flights, stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers … Continue reading →
This is not—I repeat, not—an April Fools joke. For quite a while scientists who study global warming have claimed that (and there is just no way to be delicate about this) cow flatulence and excrement—or what this article refers to … Continue reading →
Do people get happier as they get older? I’d like to think so, at least. And if this sort of research can be believed, there’s a fair amount of evidence that it’s true. But it seems to me there’s a … Continue reading →
[NOTE: If you don’t know what the Milgram experiment was, please see this.] Well, I guess it had to happen. The Milgram experiments repeat themselves, the first time as tragedy and later as farce. And is it any surprise that, … Continue reading →
Simon Heffer remarks on the apparent fracture of the Obama in-crowd, and sees it as a sign that things are going very badly indeed for the administration: The descent of Barack Obama’s regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic … Continue reading →
Not having read the research, I can’t say. But my strong hunch is that it’s garbage in, garbage out. It is notoriously difficult to design unbiased research on such a subject.
Continue reading →One would think so, after these startling admissions from Climategate player Phil Jones. Let’s see: the dog ate his hockey-stick data in 1988. His record-keeping in general is “not as good as it should be.” There has been no statistically … Continue reading →
We now have some convincing evidence that abstinence-only sexual education programs for teens, long derided as a counterproductive waste of time, actually work. This is news. This particular study has drawn attention because it is especially well-designed and includes longer … Continue reading →
Climategate continues to get richer, as much of the world continues to ignore the growing storm. Now the Russians appear to have confirmed that a great deal of the temperature data from their part of the world has been ignored … Continue reading →
Remember this satisfying scene from “Annie Hall?” Woody Allen calls on Marshall McLuhan to silence an obnoxious blowhard spouting off while waiting in a movie line: “Boy, if life were only like this,” Allen muses at the end of the … Continue reading →
I don’t think you can find any better demonstration of the profoundly anti-science mentality of the Climategate “researchers” than the following, which appeared in today’s WSJ: In 2004, retired businessman Stephen McIntyre asked the National Science Foundation for information on … Continue reading →
It is interesting to me that people who doubt AGW are often referred to as skeptics—and that’s one of the nicer things they’re called. What is the definition of a skeptic? Let’s see: 1. One who instinctively or habitually doubts, … Continue reading →