Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Blackboard » Lewandowsky’s rampant snippage.
Based on the moderator response, it appears someone over at Lewandowsky’s blog may think that explaining an obvious design flaw of his methodology that arises from the fact that anyone can use anonymous proxies to enter as many responses as they wish is somehow teaching people how to commit “fraud”. Of course my response to that is to point out that is trivially easy for an academic wishing to conduct a methodologically sound survey to write a script that prevents the vast numbers of people who know how to use free anonymous proxies from doing so. Many people routinely use these — some are required to do so by their employers. The notion that revealing this totally non-secret information is teaching people how to commit fraud is just nuts.
The Fourth Way | Planet3.0
the idea that a corrupt science would or even could concoct such a hoax is already implausible in the extreme. That it has is simply delusional.
Solar Climate Change: A huge arc of plasma-filled magnetism is rising over the sun's western limb | Climate Realists
"It's more than 30 Earth diameters long," says amateur astronomer John Stetson
Twitter / IdiotTracker: @wattsupwiththat Somebody needs ...
[retweeted by Michael Mann] @wattsupwiththat Somebody needs to explain to you guys the concept of "protesting too much." Shaking your tinfoil hats with rage not working
The BRAD BLOG : Mitt Was For the Climate [Hoax] Before He Was Against It
Even John McCain once showed the courage to go into the lion's den of denial and tell the GOP base that climate change was a clear and present danger in 2008. Romney doesn't have a logical excuse not to do exactly the same thing.

The indispensable climate blogger Peter Sinclair has noted that the very same right-wing operatives who downplayed the risk of Osama bin Laden's wrath prior to 9/11 are now downplaying the risk of Mother Nature's wrath, which has been provoked by our endless exploitation of fossil fuels.

1 comment:

@YngvarG said...

"are now downplaying the risk of Mother Nature's wrath"

We've learned from our mistakes. We're now actively trying to kill that mother...

/sarc