Thomas Malone is a smart man, and his institution is a great idea. But I can’-t stand that:
Solving Climate Change with CrowdSourcing
I am fed up with the academics who are overselling the wisdom of crowds. Enough already.
Solar activity and cosmic rays drive the Earth’s climate.
Global warming due to human-produced CO2 is the biggest scientific imposture of all times.
These 3 political leaders are all wrong.
Global warming due to human-produced CO2 is the biggest scientific imposture of all times.
Henrik Svensmark –- The Cloud Mystery (French version):
Vincent Courtillot (in French, alas):
Required reading this Friday:
– How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus –- About expelling the non-believers from the academic journals publishing on climate science
– The Dog Ate Global Warming –- About the destruction of raw temperature data of Planet Earth
More info on climate change.
How to Make Your Own Hockey Stick –- Required reading for our good friend Caveat Bettor.
More info on “-climategate”- at Memeorandum
“-Hide the decline”-
“-Hide the decline”-
One scientist investigated data from one source:
What this does show is that there is at least one temperature station where the trend has been artificially increased to give a false warming where the raw data shows cooling. In addition, the average raw data for Northern Australia is quite different from the adjusted, so there must be a number of … mmm … let me say “interesting” adjustments in Northern Australia other than just Darwin.
And with the Latin saying “Falsus in unum, falsus in omis” (false in one, false in all) as our guide, until all of the station “adjustments” are examined, adjustments of CRU, GHCN, and GISS alike, we can’t trust anyone using homogenized numbers.
Emile Servan-Schreiber comments on a New York Times opinion piece:
The idea that betting could help us gain clarity on some controversial scientific questions has first been proposed by George Mason economics professor Robin Hanson in 1992 in a paper entitled “-Could Gambling Save Science”- and available online here: http://hanson.gmu.edu/gamble.html
The benefits of creating prediction markets about controversial climate-change issues in particular is further developed on Nate Silver’-s blog and in this presentation given at CalTech in 2004: http://us.newsfutures.com/home/environmentalFutures.html
