Surface measurements have various major sources of error, which have to be guestimated away in an ad hoc manner. The only data that is arguably good enough to estimate the rather small changes in climate is Australia, Britain, and the US – which on the whole have not been warming as measured by surface instruments. And even for them, the warming estimated from surface instruments is rather similar to various …
Category: science
Defunding the left
Reagan talked about defunding the left, but never actually did anything. As a result of Trump’s threats against Berkeley, they are starting to think that hiring a bunch of thugs to beat people up and cause over a hundred thousand dollars worth of damage may have been a bit excessive. Meanwhile Trump and congress are working on stripping two billion from NASA global warming propaganda. NASA put up a bunch …
97% of scientists support the scientific consensus on climate change
And one of them is the Senior Fellow at the Alliance for Climate Education, who has just been charged with murdering a woman in what is obviously a race hate crime, though of course when white women get murdered, it does not count and nobody cares very much. And as marginal electorates in flyover country that have had large numbers of Syrian refugees dumped on them are discovering, when white …
The perils of government intervention in health care.
It is mighty embarrassing if a sick person is turned away from hospital to die in the street because he has no money. So the kindly government insists that sick poor people be treated for free. But if the hospital is going to treat poor people for free, then the hospital is going to besieged by people with carefully memorized symptoms for vague and difficult to treat diseases who show …
Vaccination safety
Some of my commenters have been arguing that vaccinations are dangerous. So I have been looking into it. I am not going to present the evidence, just my interpretation of the evidence. Autism presents at about the same age as kids get a bunch of shots, so by shear coincidence it will frequently happen that a kid gets a bunch of shots, a week or so later has some health …
America’s nuclear arsenal
Trump: “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability” “Why”, you ask “Cold war is over. Surely we have more nukes than we know what to do with.” America’s nuclear weapons are, for the most part, thermonuclear, and need a little bit of tritium to get them to ignite. Tritium has a half life of twelve years, and due to technological decline, we have not been able …
A warming world?
Early explorations of the Antarctic report an ice free shore in areas now long covered by a growing icecap. Twenty first century science just simply lies in your face about this, with blatant barefaced fraud, but sometimes the discrepancy becomes glaringly and embarassingly obvious. What about the North Pole? Early twentieth century attempts to reach the North Pole were frustrated by the fact that ice coverage was fragile, incomplete, and …
Nuclear Technological decline
The US no longer produces weapons grade plutonium. Supposedly this is a choice. It has asked other countries to not produce weapons grade plutonium, and to get rid of the weapons grade plutonium they do have. The economical way to destroy weapons grade plutonium is to burn it in nuclear reactors, to use it for power, which destroys some of it and irreversibly contaminates the rest with plutonium 240, making …
Warmists capitulate
For the last eighteen years there has been little or no global warming. Major warmists have been steadfastly denying the undeniable. Then a paper appeared, signed by most of the big names in Anthropogenic Global Warming Alarmism, acknowledging “The Big Hiatus” The black line is what the the warmists predicted, the grey area was their error bars. The colored lines are what has been observed. The graph is divided into …
Technological decay
I have long argued, and commenters on this blog have long been disputed, that science died shortly after World War II, replaced by official state religion wearing lab coats as priestly robes, and using test tubes as aspersoria for holy water. The age of science began with the Restoration and the Royal Society. The Royal Society’s motto was “Take no one’s word for it”.  Feynman, in his address “What is …