Daily Archives: July 5, 2014

Experts detect two soccer clusters, and an ice-free Arctic.

But I’m not making any predictions for next week. Argentina looked much better today. Neymar is out. Germany hasn’t been showing top form. RVP was awful today. Anyone could take it at this point. The precautionary principle would say – never … Continue reading →

I’m speaking at the ICCC conference, which is taking place next Tuesday and Wednesday in Las Vegas . The bad news : The World Cup semifinals are next Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. What are the chances of that?

You may be missing the most extraordinary World Cup match in decades. Costa Rica + RVP vs. The Netherlands.

Twitter / ESPNStatsInfo: Belgium has never lost a match …

The area of sea ice on Earth on July 2 was the largest since 1989, and the fourth largest on record. arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008 In 1984, NASA’s James Hansen predicted peak sea ice loss in the Weddell  Sea of Antarctica, right where Antarctica has experienced peak sea … Continue reading →

I forecast sunny skies for Germany and Brazil, and today we find out how I did with Belgium and The Netherlands.

Yesterday, the New York Times was busy trying to rewrite the Declaration of Independence. And they are always busy trying to rewrite the Bill of Rights. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the … Continue reading →

Most people listen, but don’t hear. An excellent example was Obama’s nomination speech in 2008, where he made one completely nonsensical statement after another – to wild cheering. I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to … Continue reading →