Link of the Day: Coincidentally, Less Than the Margin of Error for Any Given Day’s Forecast

[High Praise! to Genesius Times]

Scientists who can’t predict tomorrow’s temperature 100% certain it’ll be 1° hotter 21 years from now

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State Gun Control in America: A Historic Guide to Major State Gun Control Laws and Acts

This one might be more skimming than reading, depending on your interest level. I’m just relieved to see Wisconsin isn’t on the list. However, I’m sorry that there’s a list at all.

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8 Comments

  1. The website Motus A.D. (michellesmirror.com) had a good quote today from a New York Times piece from 8/9/19, titled:

    “Summer in the City Is Hot, but Some Neighborhoods Suffer More”

    As the United States suffers through a summer of record-breaking heat, new research shows that temperatures on a scorching summer day can vary as much as 20 degrees across different parts of the same city, with poor or minority neighborhoods often bearing the brunt of that heat… As climate change makes summers hotter, the health risks associated with these hyperlocal heat islands will grow.

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    I’m sure the elaborate climate models take into account this 20-degree margin of error when they are using data from a city where they have one single temperature recording station. And that they clearly state this margin of error when making predictions in the .5-to-1-degree range.

    Come to think of it, I never see a city’s temperature reading on a weather site saying “+/- 20 degrees.” So which is fiddling with the truth: the New York Times or the weather site?

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