Must Be A Friday, or Facts Are Stubbon Things

[chris_gerrib]

The hard drive in my laptop failed (I have backups, of course) but so I had to spend two hours opening a warranty case with HP. Makes me think they'd rather I just bought a new hard drive. ;-) Just so the day isn't a complete loss, here are a pair of links:

1) There's been a lot of argument as to whether or not humans were living in North America prior to the arrival of the Clovis people. Apparently, yes, Virginia, there were, and one of their spear points got stuck in a mastodon's leg bone.

2) Global warming skeptics held out high hopes that University of California-Berkeley physicist Richard Muller would show that global warming wasn't happening, or at least not as rapidly as predicted. Well, his results are back, and Muller said, "Our biggest surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the warming values published previously by other teams in the US and the UK." So much for "Climategate."

Facts are stubborn things. They just don't go away if you disagree with them.

Comments

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

I don't see a connection between Richard Muller and the University of East Anglia. So far as I can see, he was in no way involved in 'Climategate.' Am I missing something?

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are missing something - the fact that, despite his not being involved with East Anglia, he came to the exact same conclusion. In short, "climategate" was BS.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that the pre-Clovis people were primarily maritime and lived mostly along the Ice Age coast -- and they've left few traces that we've found because most of their lands were drowned when the seas rose at the end of the Ice Age. The interesting question is why they didn't then expand inward, but maybe they did, but not fast enough to prevent the Clovis people from leaving the most traces first.