U.S. patents cause global weather-related disasters!

Roger Pielke Jr. found a figure in the latest IPCC report that he calls"just embarrassing."

However, I've found an even more remarkable IPCC figure:  it's Figure S&M-XXX (it's really buried, so you'll have to really dig down to find it).

It compares normalized global weather-related losses with U.S. patents issued.  There is a clear correlation.  It's obvious that increasing the number of U.S. patents issued causes normalized global weather-related losses to increase.  When will the U.S. Patent Office start behaving responsibly, and stop issuing patents???!  (Will it only be when G.W. Bush leaves the Whitehouse?)

 

Comments

[james]

I saw your information at http://markbahner.typepad.com/random_thoughts/2007/04/us_patents_caus.html. Have you seen http://www.FreePatentsOnline.com ? The site might be a good resource to add. This site allows free patent searching, free PDF downloading, free alerts, and more. It is a good resource for intellectual property attorneys, patent searchers, scientists, and students.

[Mark Bahner]

Hi Laurens,

I checked, but it seems to only appear on dates that have April 1 in them. (Hint, hint.)

;-)

Mark

[Laurens Bouwer]

Mark, can you please point me to the exact location of this figure in the WG2 report (Chapter, pagenumber, etc.)? Thanks.

[Mark Bahner]

April 1, April 11.

Without my glasses, they look the same.

[absolutely]

April 1 would have been a better date to post.

[Kevin]

Amazing. The IPCC is nothing in my mind.