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Asteroids, Polar Bear Cannibalism Lead to Global Warming, or, uh, Something Bad

Doug3370 Wrote: Feb 16, 2013 12:44 PM

By way of analogy, suppose you're flipping a coin that's biased and comes up heads 55% of the time. How likely is it that the next 17 flips will end up with as many or more tails than heads? 27 percent and change. How likely is it that there will be a stretch of years, be it 17, or 13, or 24, that can be cherry-picked to make it seem as though the coin is not biased? Yet more likely. But look at all 100 past flips and the trend leaps into focus. That's how it is also with global warming.

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Asteroids, Polar Bear Cannibalism Lead to Global Warming, or, uh, Something Bad

The most pathetic part of the whole episode was that I knew that I would find it is soon as I saw the headlines and read the stories.

“A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday,” reported Reuters, “sending fireballs crashing to earth which shattered windows and damaged buildings, injuring more than 500 people. People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave, according to a Reuters correspondent in the industrial city 950 miles east of Moscow.”

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