Negative Space: global warming
- The (para)psychology of climate change research
- The “they meant well” circling of the wagons reminds me of a branch of scientific research popular when I was in college: parapsychology. Failure to create a falsifiable model ultimately led to an almost religious belief that even cheating proved the existence of psi.
- The 329th consecutive month of hot temperature adjustments
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The temperatures keep rising—as the measurements keep rising.
- Another victim of climate change: science reporting
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The needs of religious reporting are completely different from the needs of science reporting. Treating climate change as a religion is killing science reporting. If we’re not careful, it will kill science as well.
- Apocalypse cult: world will end in fire
- Influential apocalypse cult predicts end of world “within five to two hundred years”.
- Can Californians drink a train?
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The meme goes that even if we’re wrong about global warming, the money spent will still make the world a better place. That is only true if you can drink a high-speed train.
- Cargo cult climate science
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When your real-world evidence contradicts your theory, that isn’t a boon for deniers; that’s a boon for you, because, if you are a scientist, that is how your scientific knowledge advances. Real scientists are embarrassed when they ignore real-world evidence in favor of a mere theory.
- Catholic Church restores Ptolemaic theology
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Pope rescinds Galileo apology: “Mankind is the center of the universe, after all.”
- The Church of Man
- Five hundred years after Copernicus, we still find it impossible to believe that the universe does not revolve around us.
- Climate priests cry wolf one more time?
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In science, if your theory’s predictions don’t happen, you need a new theory. In religion, if your beliefs predict something that doesn’t happen, you just keep moving that prediction further into the future.
- Climate scientists say Hispanics, Africans mentally ill
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Study links living in warmer climates to increased rates of mental illness.
- Coal in their stockings: climategate Christmas
- If unknown data tracks known bad data, it’s a good guess there’s something wrong with the unknowns as well.
- Doo Doo Economics: Lord Monckton Battles Global Warming Mad Men
- Doo Doo Econ has some more photos and commentary about Lord Monckton’s San Diego talk over at his Doo Doo Economics blog.
- Glaciers retreat from Middle East
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As glaciers flee the desert, they leave once-frozen ancient barbarians behind.
- Global warming vs. oiled dolphins
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Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming critics are more dangerous than oil execs who kill dolphins, and need to be buried deeper than two million year old bones. But this makes CAGW a non-science. Science requires criticism or it isn’t science. Science-oriented media outlets are doing CAGW scientists a disservice by protecting them from competing theories.
- Google hacked by climategate deniers?
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I can’t believe that Google would actually remove climategate from their common search drop-down. But something appears to be happening here.
- I believe in Global Warming (and other conversion stories)
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Conversion stories aren’t meant to convert skeptics; they’re a bonding tale for the converted, a sign of a religion; science needs theories that make predictions about what happens when they’re right and how to falsify them if they’re wrong. Proof for human-caused global warming is always whatever happened last month or last year, never tomorrow. No application of the scientific method can ever disprove it because hindsight is 20/20.
- Lord Christopher Monckton in San Diego
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I went to see the Americans Protecting Private Property Rights presentation by Lord Christopher Monckton about the economic and scientific fallacies of the anthropogenic global warming movement last night. It was mostly stuff I’ve seen before, mainly from the climategate emails and software leak.
- Popular Christmas song perpetuates rape culture
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Global warming experts and feminists warn of rape epidemic with onset of winter weather, holiday music, but mostly holiday music.
- Ready, aim, negotiate: NASA tweets rogue asteroids to divert themselves
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Hashtag diplomacy becomes hashtag science, as the White House leverages modern social media to fight the most ancient of threats.
- Republican President must keep Roosevelt’s word
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Even if a future conservative president doesn’t believe Americans of Japanese descent are disloyal, says Irwin Stelzer, he should think twice before rescinding President Roosevelt’s Executive Orders. The President’s honor—and the nation’s—is more important than politics.
- What if we’re wrong about global warming?
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What if catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is a big hoax and we starve millions and send billions into misery for nothing?
- “Superhero” Senator laments end of ice age
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Senator Cory Booker reminisces over a youth spent traveling the long-lost land bridge to Hawaii. DC pols mistake him for savior.
More Information
- New study shows half of the global warming in the USA is artificial
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“Not only does the NOAA USCHNv2 adjustment process fail to adjust poorly sited 772 stations downward to match the well sited stations, but actually adjusts the well sited 773 stations upwards to match the poorly sited stations.” (Memeorandum thread)
- The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero
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“People say ‘Yes, they destroyed emails, and hid from Freedom of information Acts, and messed with proxies, and fought to keep other scientists’ papers out of the journals… but that doesn’t affect the data, the data is still good.”
