Re: statistics, global warming and scientific consensus

From: Xavier Onnasis <xavier.onnasis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:52:09 GMT

wf3h <wf3h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:8a651d00-737d-48aa-a7c3-d828b796b1e0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

the statistician who called the presidential election correctly
deconstructs george will's bizarre view of the 'scientific
consensus' on global warming:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/george-f-will-takes-on-science
-loses.html

Will needs to read the recent BAMS article by Peterson, Connolley, and
Fleck: "The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus"
http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F2008BAMS2370.1

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