OK GNXP readers...Donors Choose update. Been quiet about this. First, the good news. ScienceBlogs has raised A LOT of money. And Seed is throwing in matching funds (and possible prizes). The "bad" news is that my challenge is really not going too well :-) Page down on the leader-board, will you? So I've added many new causes (some of them were fully funded already). Check 'em out. If you feel inclined on giving, give. I'm generally trying to focus on biology & math since I think those are pretty "value added" in terms of how far one's money will go.
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The McIntyre factor is the amount that you have to multiply the size of an adjustment in the GISS US temperatures by to get the number of words in the resulting Steve McIntyre post. Empirical evidence puts the McIntyre factor at 125,000. You see, on Sep 10 GISS made some small changes:
So eight of you, besides me, so far, think that Donors Choose is a worthy cause. The generous eight have had an impact on 305 students! (See the Leaderboard for details.)
We're in day 2 of our month-long drive to fund projects in public school classrooms across the U.S. As I write this post, the generous readers of ScienceBloggers have given a total of $5,589.
OK, last update on this obviously because it is t