Les Jones

Seems like we’ve been through this before…. oh well.

The SCIENCE is SETTLED, heretic!

I think I already posted a response to this somewhere… it’s older than this BBC hack job.. but any way… check the chart on the right-hand side. See the red lines poking up above the trend-lines on both northern & southern hemisphere as well as the combined chart? See the trend line and the temperatures that continue the trend of pre-1998 after 1998? You see why cherry picking 1998 is just a sly way to pull the wool over the eyes of anyone who may not be paying attention to the data?
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I don’t get it. 1998 was the highest temperature recorded. That’s simply a fact, as even the chart you link to shows.

How is it cherry picking to note that? If I say that the record high price for XYZ stock was in 1998, would you say that was cherry picking data? Nope. It’s just a fact.

Sure, the trend line after that was going up, but it doesn’t change the fact that 1998 was the high point.

And as far as the trend line on that chart it’s currently trending down. I expect the 2009 data will push it down ever farther.
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Noting that ‘98 holds a record is a nice piece of trivia, but hardly worth an article entitled “what happened to global warming”. Using that trivia as the determinant of whether global warming continues is cherry-picking data.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

So, yeah… that is untrue. Except in terms of cherry-picking.
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Back up off the crack pipe, son. What part of “no increase in 11 years” do you find puzzling?

Ummm.. I just find it puzzling people would say it when it isn’t really true. That’s all.
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