Tag: insurance

September 28, 2014 0

Upsides Down and Backwards

By News Desk

Tweet Nick Stokes has his teeth into the hockey stick for a while.  Back in 2011 he explored Deep Climate’s exposure of the Wegman hanky panky, Nick found that if you didn’t do the cherry pick the results were much less hockey stick like for decentered PCs Then this March Nick explaned how McIntyre and McKitrick effectively truncated the Gaspe cedar series by fifty years, leaving, well not very much or really not very much global data for 1400-1450.   MBH had padded out that series from its end in 1404 by persistence, but a Steve McIntyre relied on a narrow reading (and Steve McIntyre is famed for such) of MBH 98 to justify that step, except they were very legalistic in not clearly explaining what they had done, until Nick Stokes worked his way through the thicket

May 26, 2014 0

The WAIS and Resilience

By News Desk

Tweet Eli has pointed out that something like the WAIS collapse, once it enters the final stage, which only takes decades, cannot be adapted to, and, given that the long slide towards an inevitable collapse has begun, mitigation is a train that has long left the station.  A word from Dano, more of a world view about what to do ——————————– By now, bunnies surely have shared carrots at the bar discussing the two new papers about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) passing a ‘tipping point’ to an inevitable collapse .

January 23, 2014 0

Liquidity Insurance

By News Desk

I made a nearly-identical statement yesterday in a comment regarding my post False Thesis of the Day: Huge Cash Pile Puts Recovery in Hands of Corporations; Cash Cow Revisited . " Cash is just not going to be used for the way Deloitte suggests