If the ACE data reflected in this chart are the criteria on which the “more and more severe storms” theory can be falsified, then I can’t see how that hypothesis…
Category: Science
Why So Many Social Science Claims Are False
Until the incentives for research change more broadly, the public will continue to be fed a steady diet of bold claims about human behavior built on an unsteady foundation.
Just the News Is Right: A Warmer Climate Is A Safer Climate
… a new Congressional Budget office (CBO) report estimates that modest future warming will avoid millions of temperature-related deaths, because the decrease in very cold days will result in fewer…
Peak Bird Migration Reveals Gaps In Northwest Weather Radar
We are now at the peak of the bird migration season, and weather radar does a good job of tracking our feathered friends.
Am I a Conspiracy Theorist?
Science advances by challenging consensus, not by bending to it. From Galileo, insisting that the earth was in orbit around the sun and not the other way round, to Barry Marshall,…
Trump is Right to Take On the Climate Litigation Complex
Whatever one makes of President Trump’s chosen words, the underlying demand – that a body claiming the authority of disinterested science should actually be disinterested – is one any serious…
Yet Another Embarrassment From The National Academy Of Pseudoscience
The federal government needs to completely defund the NAS today, if not sooner. Also, I call on every member of the NAS to resign. If you stay in, you are…
Has Climate Change Stolen Scientific Curiosity?
When we turn to consider the recent heatwave that affected Europe at the end of June, we see a marked temperature anomaly around the coast of Iberia, in Biscay and…
The Climate Driven Migration Map Hidden in Ancient DNA
(Premium articles are now available to all paid subscribers.) The question is simple: before borders, wages, and states, what moved people around the map? The answer they reach for is…
NASEM and “Independent Science”
The whole arrangement runs on the reputation. The reputation was earned over a century and a half of real work, and it is now being spent down, a chapter at…
“Casimir Effect” Perpetual Energy Machine Raises $12 Million Seed Capital
Claiming you’ve found a loophole in the laws of physics apparently gets you $12 million in capital.
A Study Shows Some Humans Are Evolving to Be ‘Foxier’. It’s Science Done Right
Reich’s genome-wide association study (GWAS) indicates that West Eurasians have increased or reduced their vulnerability to a variety of ailments. Genetic changes have rendered them less susceptible to leprosy, rheumatoid…
Would You Trust The National Academies Of Science To Tell You How Science Works?
That’s just completely wrong. We absolutely have a way of “establishing causation” — or at least of progressively ruling out causes other than our hypothesized cause — which is by…
True, Mother Jones, Polar Bears Are More Adaptable Than Alarmists Have Claimed
Mother Jones is one of the premier climate alarmist websites, so it is refreshing, even somewhat surprising, to see it publish any good news at all, even if the good…
Three Radical Ideas to Reform the Scientific Enterprise
But when you get a little closer and scrutinize science’s innards, you realize that it’s not exactly a well-oiled machine – far from it. The engine is noisy, inefficient, and…
British Intelligence Goes Full Guardian Promoting Untestable Computer-Generated Scares of Eco-System Collapse
This ridiculous scare alone gives us an idea about what is going on here. Humans affect the environment they live in, as do all species, but political extremists are given…
Climate Change is Not Causing Mass Extinctions, Says Bombshell Royal Society Paper
All these political acts are committed under a ‘settled’ climate science directive that allows scares to be invented seemingly to unquestioning order. When English Test cricket used to regularly shut…
The Problem with ‘Peer Review’
The truth of ‘peer review’ was that it was the means by which bureaucratic controls were imposed, indeed, self-imposed, on intellectual activity. That is it.
Human Evolution: ‘Our Ultimate Fate Comes Down to… Three Possibilities’
Like the cornucopia of different creatures inhabiting Charles Darwin’s beloved Galapagos Islands, humans dwelling on different bodies within the solar system could similarly evolve “endless forms most beautiful and most…