It will be interesting to see if the finding that Bjorn Lomborg’s Skeptical Environmentalist displayed “scientific dishonesty” is as widely covered as his original “research”. I’ll be scanning in particular the pages of The Economist this week, since the newsweekly has been prominent in trumpeting Lomborg’s work. The Economist also has a good tradition of debunking sloppy use of statistics.
In Dickensian London, winters seemed to always be snowy. I’ve lived here now for over 24 years, and I can only recall a handful of times when there was anything approaching real snow on the ground. Well today is one of them. Yesterday morning we woke up to a nice dusting of snow, but this morning the real thing began coming down with a steadiness that recalls my Chicago childhood.
Unlike Chicago, no one here is prepared for snow and ice. My son Ben was the only kid in his class yesterday that had boots. There is no sign whatsoever that the roads are going to be sanded or salted. I’m not sniffy about it. In fact if my borough were senseless enough to stockpile sand and salt and the necessary vehicles to distribute it, I’d be lamenting the drain on the local budget for an event that comes once every decade.