Lies, damned lies and statistics. Many’s the poor statistic that has been tortured into yielding a false confession at the hands of a merciless interrogator.
Climate sceptics have turned such torture into an art form, picking point-to-point time comparisons to show a falling trend in global temperatures, focusing on ”outlier” cool years and redrawing trend lines on graphs.
When they’re not torturing statistics, climate sceptics are taking up arms under the banner of ”correlation is not causation”. Which is true enough. Just because phenomenon A exists at the same time as, or slightly before, phenomenon B, does not mean that A caused B or vice versa.
For example, we could all agree that it is not enough, having observed both that Australian women were given the right to vote in 1901 and that global temperatures have been rising since then that, therefore, voting women caused global warming.
Clearly climate sceptics are right to say that correlation, by itself, does not prove a causal link.
and i thought it was the population increase that has risen in line with co2 that caused its increase, surely all the breathing out of co2!!, of course co2 increase with a slight delay of a few seconds.
And a-round and a-round, the argument goes, but I don’t think the point is proved by the warmists. Circular arguments GO ROUND in circles. Something that is Possible, is NOT necessarily Probable, so are the GREEN-Meanie-weenies,–”Heiling”, or not,–going to re-hash the old, tired, recently-spun past? Yes, they are. As the warmists are also surfeited with Propagandists, and at the End, all they want is billions slain, for the “good” of the Globalists, they will continue to “push” a warmist agenda, which “beats-up-on” those of the WEST, while giving those of the EAST, a “pass”. So just what is happening with the warmists, anyway. Simple. They are “Busy, getting DiZZY!”
“accuses skeptics of warmists’ tactics” That’s all I’ve been seeing lately. Everywhere by every alarmist. From Gleick, to Trenberth to Mann on Australian TV to the skeptic site trollers. Out of ammunition and they know it. Stalling and waiting for a warmer year. And it is absolutely appropriate to look at the point on the graph where temperature stopped rising while CO2 did not.
Ever notice how they’ve managed to disappear their most recent pet, BEST, after the initial warming is real, it’s bad, it’s unstoppable and it happening just liike we said it would headlines were deflated by looking at the data? Warming on the 2/3 of land where populations are growing. Not so much anywhere else and some cooling in 1/3 of land temps. But never mind those inconvenient truths. Talk about cherry picking and focusing. The Emily Littellas of science.