Over at Skeptical Science — a must read for those interested in sound explanations of climate science — John Cook has posted an analysis and refutation of an American Thinker article by Gary Thompson. Let’s look briefly at Gary Thompson’s article, The AGW Smoking Gun. First of all, note the title. Every skeptic and denier […]
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More lies, damned lies and statistics…
February 17, 2010 
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Over at Open Mind, Tamino has done it again – pointing out errors in the “skeptic” so-called science used to deny global warming. He reviews the work of Steven Goddard posted at Watts Up With That, which claims that it’s getting increasingly snowy over the Northern Hemisphere — an increase according to his data of […]
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February 14, 2010 1 Comment
Over at Open Mind, Tamino has an analysis of GHCN station data that looks quite interesting to this layperson’s eyes. I’m going to start a post on this to examine his analysis and most importantly, the next post which he promises will be a response to skeptics and their criticism of GHCN. Here’s an excerpt […]
Continue readingLies, Damned Lies and Statistics
February 6, 2010 4 Comments
I’ve always been a fan of Mark Twain and Benjamin Disraeli, and this is one of the first concepts we learned in University level statistics course. It’s interesting to see how people play with statistics, using them to make claims that those in the know can tell are really deceitful. Let’s look at an example […]
Continue readingOn Pillar Toppling
January 25, 2010 15 Comments
I have a day off today and have been surfing a number of websites looking at elements of the skeptic criticism of AGW theory. Chylek’s letter got me thinking about these pillars he sees as being undermined by the CRU emails and why I have been so little moved by all the evidence skeptics have […]
Continue readingWhat did it for me?
January 24, 2010 13 Comments
The last couple of weeks have been a watershed for me in terms of my own thinking about AGW. I entered into the post-climategate world with a willingness to see if the emails turned up evidence of a quality and quantity necessary to undermine the foundations of AGW, which I take to be the dominant […]
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The Policy Lass 
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