Here’s the latest development, courtesy of Dr Richard North – and it’s a cracker. It seems that, not content with having lied to us about shrinking glaciers, increasing hurricanes, and rising sea levels, the IPCC’s latest assessment report also told us a complete load of porkies about the danger posed by climate change to the Amazon rainforest.Read the whole thing.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
AGW Unvraveling...
ClimateGate seems to have begun the long-overdue process of critically examining the science and the corruption within the AGW community. The latest revelation is the outright falsehood of IPCC claims about the damage global warming is doing in the Amazon Basin. As James Delingpole says:
Best Economics Music Video Evah!
I'm fairly certain I have no other posts with both “Music” and “Economics” tags...
Benford's Law...
Have you ever noticed that a disproportionate amount of numbers start with the digit one? For instance, if you were to go through a newspaper and tally up the numbers that appear there, you'd find that about 30% of them start with a one. Why is it 30%? This odd phenomenon continues with the other digits – about 16% of numbers start with a two, and smaller and smaller proportions until you get to nine. What's going on here?
The first person to study this was a fellow named Frank Benford, and the proportions above are said to follow “Benford's Law”. If you follow the news carefully, you may recognize Benford's Law, as it was used last year to prove that the election results from Iran were faked – the returns should have followed Benford's law, but they did not.
If you'd like to understand more about both what Benford's Law actually is (it's a bit more complex than the simple version I gave above), and especially why it is, here's an easy-to-understand explanation.
The first person to study this was a fellow named Frank Benford, and the proportions above are said to follow “Benford's Law”. If you follow the news carefully, you may recognize Benford's Law, as it was used last year to prove that the election results from Iran were faked – the returns should have followed Benford's law, but they did not.
If you'd like to understand more about both what Benford's Law actually is (it's a bit more complex than the simple version I gave above), and especially why it is, here's an easy-to-understand explanation.
Debbie's Home!
Much happiness in our household.
She played a trick on the dogs – as we pulled into our driveway, she opened her window and ducked down out of sight. I let the dogs out to run in the yard, and then she called them. Oh, we had some very happy dogs – whimpering, leaping and twirling for sheer joy, and nearly knocking her down with their enthusiastic greetings...
She played a trick on the dogs – as we pulled into our driveway, she opened her window and ducked down out of sight. I let the dogs out to run in the yard, and then she called them. Oh, we had some very happy dogs – whimpering, leaping and twirling for sheer joy, and nearly knocking her down with their enthusiastic greetings...
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