Excellent global temperature charts clearly explained
This post is excellent. He carefully explains how to read global temperature charts, detect trends, and avoid cherry-picking data points to arrive a false conclusion (e.g., "the globe is cooling!"), which you often see in posts and comments by climate-change deniers, prompted by falsified information from major oil and coal companies.
Read the whole post. Here’s just one chart he explains:
Unless you’re seriously into denying global warming, the trend should be evident. Global warming deniers tend to see the chart as depicted below, with the temperatures rising some, sure, but recently we have a cooling trend so we’re worried about an ice age.
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Anonymous
24 November 2010 at 1:26 pm
read the post
LeisureGuy
24 November 2010 at 1:44 pm