Mark Twain provided a classic example of "damned lies" using statistics. He noted that "the number of murderers and the number of Methodists in the Nebraska Territory were rising at the same rate." This conclusively proved that Methodists were murderers. Of course, as he noted, this was a false equation.
My columns both this week and next will deal with global warming. See below.
Congressman Billybob
OH NOOOO.
You’re going GW too?
Looking forward it. ;-)
I’m sure, Congressman, that you’re familiar with Twain’s essay into science:
“In the space of one hundred and seventy six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over a mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-pole. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo [Illinois] and New Orleans will have joined their streets together and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
And so it goes, even to this day.
IMHO, The Prophet Algore and his minions have conjectured a lot of crap out of a very trifling investment of fact.
Then it holds as much authority as an Iraqi resolution.
The UN issued a report a couple of months ago saying that the worst places in the world to raise children are the United States and the UK. The international collectivist and socialist morons no doubt think kids do better in Sudan, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Siberia, Lesotho, etc.
Anything and everything coming from the UN is total rubbish.