Nothing is random, you know. Not even randomness: computers are pretty good at generating random numbers, but in fact, the computer uses rules to generate random numbers. Once you understand how that works, you can get pretty good at detecting … Continue reading →
Well, the gun control arguments have been disarmed, and we can pretty well bet that gun control will never happen at this point. The US Senate won’t even entertain new legislation concerning firearms. Done. Dead. Finished. Also, forget about global … Continue reading →
Remember about thirty-five years ago, when the Sequester was going to utterly destroy societies, completely annihilate Western thought, and thoroughly split infinitives? And it didn’t happen, and the President plunged in the polls? And then he made a series of … Continue reading →
Here is a really easy way to tick off a pro-AGW enthusiast: tell him that this winter is expected to be the coldest on record, or that we haven’t had nearly the amount of hurricanes predicted. You then get a … Continue reading →
Last week Mitt Romney released his energy plan should he be elected to office in November. It consists deregulating the heavily regulated petroleum and nuclear industries and opening publicly owned sites to facilitate the tapping into American and North American … Continue reading →
NASA created a stir among the AGW crowd this week and a number of my AGW friends posted it all over Facebook. I assume you’ve seen it (see, it’s even made it into the techie sites) – the satellite images … Continue reading →
The great and wonderous Borepatch writes into the Czar (and jeez, we hope we had his permission to reprint this; ah well, not much we can do about it now) to say: Your outstanding post covered the subject of Dr. … Continue reading →
For the record, and right up front, the Czar is a significant proponent of evolutionary theory. For him, the evidence is overwhelming and consistent. But when Richard Leakey says that the debate will soon be over, the Czar rolls his … Continue reading →
NOAA put out its “state of the climate” report. It is interesting to note a few of the points that are buried in the report: The average Arctic sea ice extent during March 2012 was 3.4 percent below average, ranking … Continue reading →
Some little time ago, a report came out that unquestionably proved Global Warming was a real thing, and that no reasonable person could remain a skeptic. Of course, a news reports claims that report is itself badly flawed, and that … Continue reading →
This is what happens to rock stars all the time. Be sure to read the comments. Smart fellows, all. Now that we have been found out, we will have to leak some nonsense out that refutes all of this. Stay … Continue reading →
CN rather expertly contributes the following: Most honorable Czar of Muscovy, who with a single effort of the pen of writing makes my most eloquent efforts seem but the ramblings of the unschooled child, it was my humble pleasure to … Continue reading →
The Czar thinks he speaks for a lot of conservatives when he says he would like to be convinced about Global Warming. After all, there is nothing more conservative than preserving what we have; if it turns out that the … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin read a very interesting article today by James Delingpole regarding the fact that there has been no global warming since 1998. Well if you are one of the millions of people around the globe that have moved 1,000 … Continue reading →
Gormogon operative BG writes in regarding the temperature of Dat Ho’s hovel in the lower levels of the castle: O Mandarin, My Mandarin – I note with interest your claim that “…your Mandarin likes to … keep the temperature in … Continue reading →
Care of small dead animals and Fox News: 1. Within a few years “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” Snowfall will be “a very rare and exciting event.” Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic … Continue reading →
This is what it looks like outside ‘Puter’s house this morning. There’s 12 to 18 inches on the ground as of now. Upstate is supposed to get perhaps another 6 to 12 inches by tomorrow morning. And, perhaps a significant … Continue reading →
Too good to even spoil this. read it (h/t Ed Driscoll – nice!) GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. … Continue reading →
So look what the Volgi dug up in the basement. It’s from a 1954 issue of Collier’s magazine. Yep, before all the global cooling… wait, global warming… heck, now it’s cooling again… began. Do your Gormogons believe in man-made climate … Continue reading →
Someone at the White House must be reading us – now that the science is pointing at a possible future cooling in the next decade, they (yes, the infamous “they”) are renaming “Global Warming” to “Global Climate Disruption”. Yawn. This … Continue reading →
Solar scientists that montior the Sun’s activity levels are predicting that by 2016, there may be no sunspots and it may remaint hat way for a few decades. Ok, so what, you ask? The last time this happened was in … Continue reading →
We always strive to be accurate. So in fairness, Dr. Phil Jones said that “This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level.” So while we chew on what that means, note the graph … Continue reading →
Looks like “consensus” isn’t what it used to be. Dr. Phil Jones, one of the central figures to the recent problems with the pro-AGW theories and data and recent former director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit … Continue reading →
Just when I finish shoveling out the driveway from the latest snow plow pass and power is restored, I get the first shots of the rants from the AGW crowd: record snows are in line with our AGW theories! SnOMG!#@#!#!! … Continue reading →
They apparently took down Copenhagen singlehandedly (about which I’m not displeased); but as FotG David Frum notes: And not only wrecked the talks, but did so with a conscious display of disdain toward the West generally and President Obama personally. … Continue reading →
Well, ok, maybe not right now. In fact, maybe not soon. The disastrous and dysfunctional Copenhagen talks are taking place while Denmark is likely facing its first white Christmas in 14 years. Aren’t you glad that President Obama sent Secretary … Continue reading →
Carbie the Climate Clown, Emmett K. Bozo Distinguished Professor of Climate Pantomimology, University of East Anglia; EU Regional President, Union of Concerned Climate Scientists and Street Performers writes: These conclusions were not only endorsed by the scientific and clown communities, … Continue reading →
President Obama’s administration has declared war and we should fear the enemy. This country has just declared a critical component to the life of vegetation on Earth as a pollutant. They have done this through the corruption of science, misleading … Continue reading →
Subtitled: Baby, it’s cold in this computer. Sure, I’m titled this post as such partially because I am one by trade and if you’ve learned anything from reading our site, we’re right (the Mandarin and ‘Puter are watching you, so … Continue reading →
The beginning of this report from Ed Driscoll (you’ll see him over there on the Album Blogorum) is really good at documenting the periodic climate panics of the last century. (The edits are a little jarring, be warned)Though the Robert … Continue reading →
Without wading into the philosophical weeds, Karl Popper’s famous principle that a theory, hypothesis, or principle is metaphysical, not scientific if it is not, in some way, falsifiable (i.e., testable), seems to apply here. Whether it’s a Kuhnian paradigm or … Continue reading →
A week of surprises from the New York Times. First, there was the confession from the public editor that they screwed up the ACORN coverage because they acted like jackasses. Now, comes word that the New York Times is revealing … Continue reading →
Regular Gormogons readers know that we tend to keep global warming and global cooling discussions at arm’s length, because most of the proponents of anthropogenic climate change (which covers warming or cooling) are shout-down liberals who call everyone else a … Continue reading →
The key to discrediting a non-rationally held belief system is with equally a-rational emotions. Like ridicule. Laughter. Given that Globalwarmingism is effectively a cult impervious to evidence (no warming? Call it “climate change” and proceed without blinking), the Gormogons have … Continue reading →
While your Mandarin and his son were watching a Phineas and Ferb marathon we were constantly being bombarded with commercials for Disney’s new environmental project called Friends for Change: Project Green. On the face of it, it is an effort … Continue reading →
Well, FoxNews.com is reporting that the House of Representatives has passed the Climate Change Bill by a vote of 217 to 205. The Democrats have demonized CO2 with the help of the useful idiots in the “environmental” movement to pass … Continue reading →
To wrap up this series, let’s look at what’s really happening out there in the world. To echo one of ‘Puter’s points, I’m not arguing to do nothing – yes, we should be good stewards of the environment, but with … Continue reading →
Do you remember learning about the Scientific Process back in grade school? Maybe between the teachers highlighted in our “Great Moments in Teaching” series, the failures to pass simple board exams and the union masters they serve, your teachers didn’t … Continue reading →
Over the next few days, I’m going to spend a little bit of space here conducting a little lesson in science surrounding the hype that is “Global Warming”, “Climate Change” and “Ocean Acidification” (the last one is a new term … Continue reading →
And it’ll be getting colder for a while, seems like. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Building off of the Czar’s recent post on Global Warming, it seems that POTUS Obama’s science advisor thinks we should entertain the notion of geoengineering to help the “runaway global warming” problem. John Holdren told The Associated Press in his … Continue reading →
In the May/June 2009 issue of Skeptical Inquirer, your Czar found an article titled “The Great Global Cooling Myth and the Politics of Science” by John Fleck. SI has, true to its nature, retained a fairly conservative and skeptical opinion … Continue reading →
