Global Apophenia ...(sorry, Global Warming)

Yesterday, the US Climate Change Science Program issued a pogram designed to ruin our economy a report that reinforces the mistaken belief that the Earth's climate is changing because we puny humans like to live as well as possible (given that humankind has been around for 25,000 years or so and just recently we've implemented Air Conditioning, I guess that guilt is too much for these liberals to bear...)

apophenia : Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena.

Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".

"While observations of relevant work environments and human behaviors in these environments is a very important first step in coming to understand any new domain, this activity is in and of its self not sufficient to constitute scientific research. It is fraught with problems of subjective bias in the observer. We (like the experts we study) often see what we expect to see, we interpret the world through our own personal lens. Thus we are extraordinarily open to the trap of apophenia."

In statistics, apophenia is called a Type I error, seeing patterns where none, in fact, exist. It is highly probable that the apparent significance of many unusual experiences and phenomena are due to apophenia, e.g., ghosts and hauntings, EVP, numerology, the Bible code, anomalous cognition, ganzfeld "hits", most forms of divination, the prophecies of Nostradamus, remote viewing, and a host of other paranormal and supernatural experiences and phenomena.

Oh, and Global Warming.

Thanks again, Al.

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From Jennifer Marohasy's "The Politics and Environment" blog...
CO2 goes up, temps go down. But...that's...not what is supposed to happen, huh?

Is there something else at work besides my air conditioning that might cause global climate change?

How's the sunspot weather today? Hmmmm...one stinkin' sunspot (#999) visible on the map. (Oh, also from that link...

SUMMER SOLSTICE: Later today, June 20th, at precisely 23:59 UT (7:59 pm EDT), Earth's north pole will be tipped to the max (23.5o) toward the Sun. This marks the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere, and winter in the southern hemisphere. The seasons are changing--Happy Solstice!

Does this mean...

BOATING SEASON!!!!11!!!

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