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  1. Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!nereid.sal.ists.ca!bsugars
  3. From: bsugars@nereid.sal.ists.ca (Benjamin Sugars)
  4. Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.203535.5296@ists.ists.ca>
  6. Sender: news@ists.ists.ca (News Subsystem)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: nereid.sal.ists.ca
  8. Organization: Space Astrophysics Laboratory, ISTS, Toronto, Canada
  9. References: <1993Jan22.163518.13003@unocal.com> <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:35:35 GMT
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  13. In article <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
  14. >On the other hand, my father gives a talk in which he shows these great
  15. >graphs correlating solar activity with a) storks nesting in chimneys
  16. >in Sweden, and b) the number of papers published by Sidney Chapman.
  17. >Correlation != causation.
  18.  
  19. Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't any two events that are periodic
  20. show some kind of unusually high correlation, no matter how unrelated
  21. they may be?
  22.  
  23. Later,
  24. -Ben
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