Stats Guru Nate Silver Issues Financial Challenge To Climate Skeptics

fivethirtyeight.com:

John Hinderaker at the popular conservative blog PowerLine reports that it's been cold, cold, cold in his home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota, going to far as to compare it with "The Year Without a Summer", 1816, when global temperatures were abnormally low as a result of the eruption of Mount Tambora.

Selective memory is a powerful thing. I'm not particularly when the fact that it's cool or rainy in your hometown one afternoon became subject for worthwhile blog material, but you have started to see this all the time on certain conservative blogs, probably led by the example of Matt Drudge.

Therefore, because I'd like to see more accountability on all sides of this debate and because I'm tired of people who don't understand statistics and because I'd like to make some money, I issue the following challenge.

Read the whole story: fivethirtyeight.com

Comments

[Callyson]

Hinderaker should come on out to Los Angeles, where we are currently having a heat wave.
Nate, love your website--good luck on the challenge!

[Zen0469]

An excellent way of teaching the win.gnu.tters a little bit of pragmatic statistics.

[sviolette]

Why are the 60 and 80 degree numbers right side up when the 100 and 120 degree numbers upside down on that thermometer?

[Tommygun264]

Ah-ha! the conspiracy is revealed!

The "F" on the right is supposed to be at the bottom and the "C" at the left is supposed to be on top.