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Tag Archives: Global Warming
Adaptation
Something that has never impressed me about the global warming crowd is their under appreciation of the human’s ability to adapt — especially to relatively slow changing things like climate. This shows a lack of depth in thinking about history … Continue reading
Good Wednesday Reading
1. Bonus column from Thomas Sowell today, Too Many Apologies. In it, Sowell explores apologies made to people who are not owed apologies, by people who often don’t need to apologize. This craze for aimless apologies is part of a … Continue reading
Interesting Global Warming Discussion
At Cafe Hayek, Finally, Brad DeLong calls me a liar.
Posted in Debate, Global Warming
Tagged Brad DeLong, Economists, Global Warming, Phil Jones, Russ Roberts
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World May Not Be Warming?
You mean “widely accepted warming science” may not be correct? Read this from the Times in London. A quote from a former leader author on the IPCC regarding temperature monitoring stations: “The story is the same for each one,” he … Continue reading
Some Meterologists Doubt Global Warm
I sent this e-mail this morning to Rick Montgomery, reporter at the Kansas City Star. I enjoyed your article in the Star today, Climate change splits forecasters. I was disappointed that only a passing mention was made of the Climategate … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Thinking, Debate, Global Warming
Tagged climategate, Global Warming, Kansas City Star
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Global Warming
As weather forecasters predict more massive snowfall for the east coast, Newt Gingrich pokes, “the weather conditions prove that ‘global warming’ is a hoax” while “activists say that scientists are looking at longer-lasting weather patterns.” With all due to respect … Continue reading
Not So Hot
And here’s the story of how raw data of one temperature monitoring station can be adjusted to make a cooling trend look like an alarming warming trend. I lifted the key graph. I highly encourage you to read the whole … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming
Tagged climategate, Global Warming, temperature adjustments, watts up with that
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Climategate? Climategate? Climategate?
According to this website, major network news has still not reported on climategate. And this guy is asks people “to just say what they actually know.” Fair request. I’ll add that they should separate what they know from what they … Continue reading
Get Around It
In this column, Larry Elder writes about NPR’s treatment of the climategate story. I enjoyed the column. I especially enjoyed these two sentences: One crosses the line from scientist to advocate when, if faced with conflicting or unexpected data, the scientist tries … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Thinking, Politics, Root Cause, Systems thinking, True Measures
Tagged climategate, Global Warming, groupthink
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Climategate?
While eating lunch with a couple old friends today, I casually mentioned climategate. They both looked perpelexed, “climategate?” You know, the hacked e-mails from the climate scientists that makes it look like they were manipulating data to meet their bias, … Continue reading
