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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc10.harvard.edu!dnolan
  2. From: dnolan@husc10.harvard.edu (David Nolan)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
  4. Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.225236.19841@husc3.harvard.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 03:52:36 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan26.225236.19841
  8. References: <1993Jan22.163518.13003@unocal.com> <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu> <1993Jan25.203535.5296@ists.ists.ca>
  9. Organization: Harvard University Science Center
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  13. In article <1993Jan25.203535.5296@ists.ists.ca> bsugars@nereid.sal.ists.ca (Benjamin Sugars) writes:
  14. >In article <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
  15. >>On the other hand, my father gives a talk in which he shows these great
  16. >>graphs correlating solar activity with a) storks nesting in chimneys
  17. >>in Sweden, and b) the number of papers published by Sidney Chapman.
  18. >>Correlation != causation.
  19. >
  20. >Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't any two events that are periodic
  21. >show some kind of unusually high correlation, no matter how unrelated
  22. >they may be?
  23. >
  24. >Later,
  25. >-Ben
  26. >
  27.  
  28. Only if they have the same oscillation period.  But I think Ilana
  29. was joking anyway...
  30.  
  31. Dave
  32.