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therightinsight.org/Barely-Measurable
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8/6/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Several recent media articles have suggested that even if the US adopted the Green New Deal, or somevariant thereof, which reduced or eliminated US CO2 emissions, the impact on global warming would be “barely measurable”. These ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Humpty-Dumptyism
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3/13/18 at 6:53 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”, Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumptyism: The practice of insisting that a word means whatever one wishes it to.
Fact: Something that has actual existence; an ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Linguistics
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8/1/17 at 8:08 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Linguistics: “the study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and modification of language”
Climate discussions have had some interesting impacts on linguistics, though it would be inaccurate to refer to those...
therightinsight.org/Factual
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8/11/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
- factual: of or relating to facts; restricted to or based on fact (Merriam-Webster)
- nonfactual: not relating to, concerned with or based on facts (Merriam-Webster)
- counterfactual: contrary to fact (Merriam-Webster)
- deceptive: tending or...
therightinsight.org/Irreproducibility-and-Climate-Science
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5/22/18 at 8:25 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Know-Imagine-Project
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10/31/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Know;
1a(1) : to perceive directly : have direct cognition of
2a : to be aware of the truth or factuality of : be convinced or certain of
Imagine:
1: to form a mental image of (something not present)
2: suppose, guess
3: to form a notion ...
therightinsight.org/Observation-vs-Supposition
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5/26/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Most government environmental regulations are based on observations of atmospheric concentrations, exposure durations and adverse health effects. Specific sources of emissions of the pollutants in question are measured individually and the ...
therightinsight.org/Parsing-the-Environmental-Defense-Fund
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8/21/18 at 6:58 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Wall Street Journal recently published an opinion piece by Fred Krupp, the President of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). The piece was not accompanied by a disclaimer that the piece was the opinion of Mr. Krupp and did not ...
therightinsight.org/Replication-and-Climate-Science
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7/10/18 at 5:45 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
One of the potential approaches to dealing with the Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science is replication of the experiment. Replication of an experiment is far more expensive than merely attempting to reproduce the results of an ...
therightinsight.org/Weather-Climate-Events
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12/10/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Current climate change research is focused on what has happened in the past and what is projected to happen in the future. The study of the past relies on retrieval and analysis of temperature proxies, collection and “adjustment&rdquo...
therightinsight.org/What-We-Know-About-Climate-Change
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5/15/18 at 7:06 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Anybody having to make a decision about climate science needs to understand the full spectrum of what we know and what we don’t know.” Dr. Steven E. Koonin, former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
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therightinsight.org/Fake-News
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12/6/16 at 9:15 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
There has been much discussion recently about “fake news”, a concept which has nearly as many definitions as it has observers and commenters. Some “fake news” is totally made up, with no basis in fact. Some “...
therightinsight.org/Just-the-facts-maam
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1/31/17 at 9:14 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Politics is a battle of ideas; in the course of a healthy debate, we’ll prioritize different goals, and the different means of reaching them. But without some common baseline of facts; without a willingness to admit new ...
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