{"id":6689,"date":"2010-12-03T09:23:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T13:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2010-12-03T10:26:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T14:26:42","slug":"pay-no-attention-to-the-statisticians-behind-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/pay-no-attention-to-the-statisticians-behind-the-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay no attention to the statisticians behind the curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jamesdelingpole\/100066594\/signs-that-show-man-made-global-warming-is-definitely-still-happening\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Delingpole<\/a> has a handy guide to assure you that man made global warming is still happening:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all actually a sign that man made global warming is very much a live issue and that there\u2019s more of it happening than ever,\u201d says a top scientist, who holds the British record for securing grant-funding for global warming research projects so he must know what he\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the Met office,\u201d the scientist goes on. \u201cThey\u2019ve just told us that 2010 is the hottest year since records began in 1850 and even though the stupid Central England Temperature record tells us something quite different and even though the year hasn\u2019t actually finished yet they must know what they\u2019re talking about and they definitely can\u2019t have fiddled the data because the Met office is part of the government and they wouldn\u2019t lie or get things wrong which is why that barbecue summer was such a scorcher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The big problem is, the scientist said, is that the public are really stupid. They think just because Dr David Viner of the Climatic Research Unit said in the Independent in 2000 that soon there\u2019d be no snow because of global warming, when what he actually meant was that soon there\u2019d be lots of snow and that this would be \u201cproof\u201d of global warming. The interviewer just missed out the word \u201cproof\u201d that\u2019s all because journalists are lazy that way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, yes, confusing mere &#8220;weather&#8221; with climate again, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Delingpole has a handy guide to assure you that man made global warming is still happening: \u201cIt\u2019s all actually a sign that man made global warming is very much a live issue and that there\u2019s more of it happening than ever,\u201d says a top scientist, who holds the British record for securing grant-funding for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,65,28],"tags":[245,240,39,290],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-environment","category-media","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1JT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}