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Debunking the Debunkers – Abrupt Climate Change 9 Jul 2013 | 06:23 am
The Bad Astronomer took issue with an Op Ed, by Matt Ridley, in the WSJ. Unfortunately (for the BA) Ridley follows the evidence, not the consensus, and CAGW loses on the evidence (big time.) It’s on W...
Just in Case ANyonThought the IPCC Was About Science 16 Jun 2013 | 12:18 am
Well it’s been pretty obvious to anyone who are, for quite some time, that the IPC is about Politics first, agenda second. There’s the scientific report and then there’s the summary report, which is w...
Abrupt Climate Change Over the Last 15,000 Years. 3 Jun 2013 | 12:16 am
Alarmists love to call the modern warming “unprecedented.” This is pretty hysterical given that number of much larger and more abrupt changes over the years. The .5 to .8C over the last 150 years just...
Do Cosmic Rays Aid in Lightning Creation? 17 May 2013 | 09:36 pm
The actual mechanisms of how lightning works have been eluding scientists for a very long time. Here’s a new idea that might explain some of it. Cosmic rays interacting with water droplets within thun...
Is there a Greenhouse Effect? 14 May 2013 | 04:46 am
Atmospheric physicists disagree. Both sides claim the other doesn’t know their thermodynamics. (Is that why I heard it called ThermoGodDammics in college?) On Facebook, for more “discussion:” Watts Up...
A Dose of Reality for Alternative Energy 6 May 2013 | 02:01 am
And that dose of reality is the fossil fuel that needed to make it real. The rare earths that are required which just switch our dependencies from one country to the other. The large amount of diesel ...
Peer Review and Faking Data 30 Apr 2013 | 07:02 am
Fist off: Peer Review, for all it’s warts, seems to be the best system we have for proofing papers against the various errors that can creep in. It’s subject to issues ranging from missed errors to “p...
The Psychology of Expertise, or How we Think 26 Apr 2013 | 09:13 pm
This is a really interesting piece from NoFrakkingConsensus on why predictions, in any field, tend to be so bad and yet we keep making them. And we make them with confidence. A great example is the cl...
Sanity in the Media 27 Mar 2013 | 09:29 pm
As time goes on and the CAGW meme breaks down we will be seeing bits of sanity appearing in various traditional media (Main Stream Media.) It’ll probably be awhile before it happens in the US, though....
Senate Dems Give the Finger 18 Mar 2013 | 10:08 pm
In a show of complete and utter contempt for anything resembling fiscal rationality the Democrats of the US Senate have offered up a budget. A budget that increases spending by 62% over the next ten y...
