Nate Silver challenges climate change skeptics over temperature cherry-picking
Statistician and writer Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com calls out climate skeptics over exaggerations of cool summer temperatures.
Photo: NYMag "Here in Minnesota and across the Midwest, temperatures are abnormally cold. I don't know whether the phenomenon is world-wide--data that will answer this question have probably not been assembled, and may not be honestly reported--but the current low level of solar activity suggests that the cooling trend could indeed be universal."
1. For each day that the high temperature in your hometown is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit above average, as listed by Weather Underground, you owe me $25. For each day that it is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit below average, I owe you $25.2. The challenge proceeds in monthly intervals, with the first month being August. At the end of each month, we'll tally up the winning and losing days and the loser writes the winner a check for the balance.
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Aaron your comment makes no sense. It doesn't matter when the gamble begins, and though the article doesn't specify, it's probably going to go for a year. The article says "months". Where's the problem? Are you critising Nate Silver based on the credibiltiy of your own background in the field of weather/climate science? Or was it simply a visceral attack ?
All Nate Silver has proved is that he doesn't understand weather versus climate either. His little stunt does nothing but prove that he knows how to gamble with odds, since the hottest months of the year are NOW.
So he's as big a fool as he purports the so-called skeptics to be.
and I'm psyched to see him take on this group...maybe we'll start to follow him on global warming like we used to on the 2008 election.
