Science by Lucia, cartoon by Josh.
Josh writes:
Yesterday Lucia sent me an email about the recent Gergis et al ‘on hold’ paper with the subject title “Do you understand the math enough to do a cartoon?”.
My response was, of course, to nervously read the email to gauge just how embarrassing my assured ‘fail’ would be.
Luckily Lucia is a genius at words as well as numbers and after a few emails back and forth she had explained the problem sufficiently well and suggested a possible cartoon solution. So this is truly a joint cartoon with all the clever bits by Lucia and some drawing by me.
She even wrote a haiku.
Screening fallacy:
If you sieve for hockeysticks
that’s just what you’ll get.
If you want to understand more, head over to The Blackboard or Climate Audit, there’s lots to read.
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