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- From: makrisna@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Krishna AchutaRao)
- Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
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- Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:25:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
- >On the other hand, my father gives a talk in which he shows these great
- >graphs correlating solar activity with a) storks nesting in chimneys
- >in Sweden, and b) the number of papers published by Sidney Chapman.
- >Correlation != causation.
- >
- I once saw a presentation with a slide showing correlation between sun spots
- and the number of republicans in the senate :-)
-
- >But it's certainly an interesting correlation. Want to propose a
- >mechanism?
-
- There is an article in EOS Transactions(volume 74 number 2, Jan 14 1993) by
- George Reid related to this(the climate change, not senate republicans).
- No mechanism, just discussing solar activity as a possible factor.....
- >
- >--
- >/\ "I'm only a human girl person. I ain't always perfect."--Rambling Rose
- > \_][ <--NCAR Ilana Stern dod#009 r.b. cliff swallow ilana@ncar.ucar.edu
- > \______________________________________________________________________
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- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- + Krishna Achuta Rao, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engg., Tulane University +
- +That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists +
- +trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. -Calvin & Hobbes +
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