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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Warming

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To: sageyrain who wrote (135)6/19/2008 6:28:59 PM
From: Archie Meeties  Read Replies (1) of 185
 
Are you curious as to why the author of that graph chose to look at a certain small snapshot of recent time? A time that begins in 1998?

Well if you examine a bigger dataset, the answer becomes clear.

climate4you.com

A graph beginning in 1998 cherry picks an interval that begins with an abnormally high and then goes forward to make it seem like temperatures have been falling. It's clumsy and to be honest, the more you post these manipulated graphs, links to blogs where people take one small sliver of data and try to generalize it to fit their needs, the worse your case looks.

The only thing you can say about the graph you posted is this.

"If we choose the absolute highest, most extreme peak of surface temperatures as the starting point of a small set of data, then we can construct a graph that makes it look like warming is not occuring." That's all you can say.

Here's a good composite of a longer time period.

oceanworld.tamu.edu

Oh, and I'm still waiting for you to generate some response to the previous data I posted. For example, you called the paper on the non correlation between solar cycles and temperature "garbage". I asked you to point out where the garbage assumptions are in the paper. So far you haven't. So either you can or you can't, which is it?
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