Have fun with this one
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.
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Can we stop calling it “AGW science” now?
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 →
You mean, abstinence-only programs might actually work?
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 →
Cimategate: cherry-picking the data
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 →
Al Gore has a Woody Allen/Marshall McLuhan moment
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 →
Climategate: the data guards
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 →
Climategate: who are the skeptics?
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 →
The lonely fight of an AGW “denier”
Read his cri de coeur here: I find it rings flat with me to have to face people asking where the scientists were when we were overcoming so many many obstacles to get a rare fair hearing. The scientists have … Continue reading →
Jones and the Climategate data: when was it destroyed?
The blog Wattsupwiththat makes an excellent point (hat tip: commeter “huxley”)—one that the press might have pointed out as well, had its members been the least bit interested in doing their jobs: if the raw data was actually destroyed back … Continue reading →
Climategate: using the tried and true Madoff approach
Commenter “BumperStickerist” at Ace’s makes the following observation about Climategate: What the CRU is doing is identical to what Bernie Madoff did. Bernie asserted that his investment scheme was legit. Bernie didn’t share his raw data. There were skeptics who … Continue reading →
Climategate reading
If you haven’t read these three pieces on Climategate yet, I suggest you do: this, this, and this.
Continue reading →Climategate: how deep the rot?
Climategate is endlessly fascinating; I could write and read about it all day if I let myself. It has many of the most suspenseful elements of fiction (Michael Crichton fiction, to be exact), but truth tends to be stranger—and to … Continue reading →