From: R Kym Horsell <kymhorsell@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.environment,can.politics,seattle.politics,or.politics
Subject: Re: OT Why do people make fun of trump?
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 01:12:15 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: kymhorsell.com
In sci.environment Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2024-10-02 11:49, WrongWayImNuts wrote:
>> micky wrote:
>>> Why do people make fun of trump for saying windmills cause cancer?
>>> Windmills really do cause cancer.
>> This is generally true:
>> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653647/
> An article that doesn't so much as mention cancer...
The numbers are the other way, of course:
States like: Windpower GWh Cancer/100k Model
Alaska 13.000000 139.2 151.033*
California 1521.000000 136.7 150.549*
Iowa 3278.000000 158 149.985
Kansas 2282.000000 157.2 150.305
Massachusetts 22.000000 149.3 151.03
Michigan 553.000000 161.3 150.86*
Minnesota 1085.000000 146.8 150.689
Montana 191.000000 152.6 150.976
North.Carolina 40.000000 157.1 151.024
North.Dakota 1196.000000 142.6 150.653
Oregon 914.000000 154.2 150.744
Pennsylvania 282.000000 161 150.947*
Rhode.Island 20.000000 154.2 151.031
South.Dakota 788.000000 156.9 150.784
Texas 9354.000000 146.5 148.034
Washington 714.000000 148.4 150.808
Wisconsin 137.000000 153.2 150.993
Wyoming 565.000000 136.1 150.856*
y = -3.210325e-04*x + 1.510372e+02
T-test: P(beta<0) = 0.636651
Rank test: calculated Spearman corr = -0.062951
Crit val = .399 at 5%; accept H0:not_connected
r2 = .00785
If you test Beta==0 at the 5% confidence level you get a rejection:
H0 beta == 0.000000 against H1 beta != 0.000000
calculated t = -0.355718 at 16 d.f.
|t| > tc (0.0636987 2-sided); reject H0
H0 beta == 0.000000 against H1 beta < 0.000000
t < tc (1.74588 left tail); reject H0
I.e. it is not provable there is "no connection".
It is weakly negative and definitely not positive.
--
[GH] has to do with CO2 ABSORBING the IR, and converting that
electromagnetic energy into thermal (kinetic motion of molecules) energy.
Thus the air near the surface becomes warmer.
It has nothing to do with photons "bouncing around in transit".
-- Marvin aka Mike Varney@Boulder, 26 Mar 2014
Absorbing is perfectly reversible.
There would have to be strongly non linear thermal gradient
for air to be significantly heated by IR absorbtion.
-- Poutnik, 27 Mar 2014