From the website: “Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science” by Andrew Gelman. h/t to Willie Soon So the NYT yesterday has a story about this study I am directed to it and am immediately concerned about all the things that make this study somewhat dubious. Forking paths in the definition of the independent variable, sample selection in who…
Communist China-funded US enviro groups working to stop US military base on Okinawa China is funding us green groups to harm our national security. Environmental Group Condemns GOP Panel’s Foreign Agent Probe By The Associated Press Oct. 19, 2018 WASHINGTON — An environmental group has denounced a House oversight committee for suggesting the organization’s efforts…
From the University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health. This should limit the urgency that the EPA had over implementing new air pollution laws where they make claims of increasing death tolls. Air pollution in the U.S. has decreased since about 1990, and a new study conducted at the University of North…
NOTE: I don’t necessarily agree with this [at all], but I thought it worth exposing – Anthony In a recent article in the Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International, Transdyne Corporation geoscientist J. Marvin Herndon makes the startling claim that climate scientists, including the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have been chasing the wrong…
By Tom Harris and Jay Lehr President Donald Trump was right to express skepticism about human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change in his October 14th interview on CBS television’s “60 Minutes.” Contrary to Al Gore’s assertion in his PBS interview aired on October 12 that only “a few outliers” in the scientific community don’t support the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conclusions, there are…
Wet southern states to contrast drought in West – weak El Nino expected A mild winter could be in store for much of the United States this winter according to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. In the U.S. Winter Outlook for December through February, above-average temperatures are most likely across the northern and western U.S., Alaska…
Apollo 17 moonwalker Dr. Harrison Schmitt rejects UN climate report: ‘The observations that we make as geologists…do not show any evidence that human beings are causing this’ NYT asks Geologist and Moonwalker Dr. Harrison Schmitt about UN IPCC report: The New York Times’ Nicholas St. Fleur: “…as one of the leading climate change deniers, when there was…
Mike Bastasch at the Daily Caller writes: Greenhouse gas emissions continued to plummet during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, according to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.7 percent from 2016 levels, according to the EPA. Emissions on a per-capita basis hit a 67-year low last year, federal…
The question occurs after the muted reaction last week to the latest forecast from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In case you hadn’t heard we’re all doomed, yet the world mostly yawned. This is less complacency than creeping scientific and political realism. The U.N. panel says the apocalypse is nigh—literally. According to…
Mike Bastasch writes at the Daily Caller: Daily low temperature records are being smashed in the western half of the U.S. as states from Michigan to California experience wintry weather. Meteorologist Ryan Maue tweeted Monday that “record low temperatures are covering the map with a major cold front blasting through the Rockies to the Mississippi…